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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is violence truly a manifestation of for the author?
(a) Sexual inadequacy.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Hatred of women, especially the mother.
(d) Imperialism, power, and a hierarchy of control.

2. Which one of the following is true of the author beliefs about child care centers?
(a) They should be run exclusively by women.
(b) They should be staffed by workers of both genders.
(c) They should be run with discipline and order.
(d) They should not provide food for the children's lunches.

3. What group of women are left out but really stand to benefit more from feminist thought?
(a) Housewives.
(b) College women.
(c) Illiterate women.
(d) Middle class women.

4. The title of Chapter Ten, "Revolutionary Parenting," suggests which of the following ideas?
(a) Parents should homeschool their children.
(b) Parenting, and attitudes toward it, must undergo major changes.
(c) How activists can meet the challenges of parenting.
(d) Parenting and technology.

5. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?
(a) They try to dominate men.
(b) They become power hungry to the point of fanaticism.
(c) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.
(d) They develop an inferiority complex.

6. What is the author's main contention about work in Chapter Seven?
(a) There needs to be better statistical data about employment.
(b) The government should create more jobs.
(c) Professors are underpaid.
(d) Ideas and attitudes about work must change.

7. What qualities does the author promote in this final chapter on change via the feminist movement?
(a) Patience and submission.
(b) Patience and active struggle.
(c) Aggression and intellectual aptitude.
(d) Suspicion and perseverance.

8. What was the week point in feminists' initial view of power?
(a) They placed too much value on attaining power and not enough on its effects.
(b) They did not distinguish between power as domination and control over others and power that is creative and life-affirming.
(c) Their opinions were vague and lacked cohesion.
(d) They did not realize that power was not limited to men.

9. In the author's view, how should the beliefs about motherhood that she discusses be dealt with?
(a) They should be replaced by non-European beliefs.
(b) They should be embraced by new mothers.
(c) They should be taught in schools.
(d) They should be broken down and eliminated.

10. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?
(a) Prejudices against academics and/or intellectuals.
(b) Prejudices against rich women.
(c) Prejudices against illiterate women.
(d) Prejudices against their mothers' generation.

11. Why does society-the U.S. in particular-have this kind of reaction to the process of change?
(a) Because change always happens quickly in the U.S.
(b) Because people need constant entertainment.
(c) Because its citizens are unaccustomed to having to wait for things.
(d) Because it has nothing to compare this process to.

12. How does the author view the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities?
(a) As an imitation of patriarchal models of power
(b) As a disappointment.
(c) As a new form of slavery.
(d) As an ideal kind of power.

13. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?
(a) Many uneducated women have been excluded.
(b) More women have been attracted to the movement.
(c) Many women have seen the writing as impractical.
(d) Younger women have been able to relate to feminist writing with more ease.

14. What is the main topic of discussion in Chapter Eleven, "Ending Female Sexual Oppression."
(a) Sexuality and sexual expression.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Sexual harassment in the work place.

15. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?
(a) The dispelling of stereotypes.
(b) Less boredom and frustration.
(c) The creation of new woman-owned franchises.
(d) A better sense of current events.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does consumerism relate to the author's discussion of power?

2. How is violence often represented in western culture?

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

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

5. What is the author's opinion of the early feminist belief about creating change?

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