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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assertion does the author make about lower and middle class women and power?
(a) They have followed creative and life-affirming models of power.
(b) They feel comfortable with the power hierarchy.
(c) They have given up on attaining any power in their lives.
(d) They do not have the time to create new models of power.

2. In addition to gender and violence, what major aspect of violence does the author discuss in this chapter?
(a) War.
(b) Violence against animals.
(c) Parental violence.
(d) Violence in the cinema.

3. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?
(a) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.
(b) Men must be encouraged to practice parenting.
(c) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.
(d) Parenting must also take place outside the home.

4. What do these accepted beliefs about motherhood manifest for the author?
(a) Television narratives.
(b) Ingrained sexist thought.
(c) Groundbreaking theories of motherhood.
(d) Liberal thought.

5. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?
(a) They should learn aggressive marketing tactics.
(b) They can accept it as a necessary evil.
(c) They should focus on more important things.
(d) Buy only what is necessary and thus resist capitalist culture and its connection to sexual oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ideas in particular does she address?

2. Based on your overall understanding of this text, what approach is suggested by the title, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center?

3. How does the author herself feel about the slow process of change and all the work that it involves?

4. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight

5. Why did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to early feminist views on work as they did?

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