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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following the author's reasoning, what does a societal trend towards women identifying with and pursuing male models of power show?
(a) That women are just as capable as men.
(b) That women do not necessarily experience and wield power differently from men.
(c) It does not really show us anything one way or the other.
(d) That women lack the ability to develop their own models.

2. In Chapter Six, what does the author claim women active in feminist movement have been ambivalent about?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Power.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Sex.

3. How is violence often represented in western culture?
(a) As sexually titillating, and even associated with love and romance.
(b) As a symbol of life.
(c) As something only practiced by villains.
(d) As reprehensible, no matter who commits it.

4. For the author, if "we" are to transform our present reality, what must happen?
(a) We cannot truly change out present reality without creating complete chaos.
(b) The world we most intimately know and feel safe in must end.
(c) We must embrace our enemies.
(d) We must elect a female president.

5. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?
(a) It is a manifestation and perpetuation of traditional patriarchal thought that men are powerful and women are victims.
(b) Women invite violence by the way they dress.
(c) It is a result of women entering the workforce in large numbers.
(d) It is an innate part of male biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these accepted beliefs about motherhood manifest for the author?

2. Whose ideas in particular does she address?

3. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?

4. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?

5. What is the main topic of discussion in Chapter Eleven, "Ending Female Sexual Oppression."

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