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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What represents true sexual liberty for the author?
(a) Same sex relations.
(b) Ending sexual oppression and sexism.
(c) Unrestricted heterosexual relations.
(d) Abstinence.

2. What is the author's opinion of the early feminist belief about creating change?
(a) It was both idealistic and unrealistic.
(b) It was very forceful.
(c) It was not idealistic enough.
(d) It was too pessimistic.

3. What has desensitized women and men to violence in the author's view?
(a) She does not feel that women have become desensitized to violence.
(b) Their families.
(c) Its use in everyday language.
(d) Its prevalence in the media.

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

5. Related to the issue of feminist writing, between which two groups does the author notice tension in the greater feminist movement?
(a) The tension between those who write and discuss theories and ideas and those who engage in direct activism to support the feminist movement.
(b) The tension between younger and older women.
(c) The tension between those who advocate scientific analysis and those advocating political manifestos.
(d) The tension between those who are idealistic and those who are practical.

6. In the author's view, what is the result, or effect, of some successful feminists' particular relationship with power?
(a) It reverses gender roles in a positive way.
(b) It destroys less powerful women's chances.
(c) It makes men extremely jealous.
(d) It perpetuates the very sexism they claim to strive against.

7. 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 their mothers' generation.
(d) Prejudices against illiterate women.

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

9. For the author, what activity would be most likely to help spread feminism and its goals to a wider cross section of women?
(a) Holding town hall events.
(b) Printing more pamphlets.
(c) Buying ad space on television.
(d) Promoting literacy.

10. Who is affected by sexist attitudes in the author's view?
(a) Gay men.
(b) Both men and women.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

11. How did early feminists, and society at the time, view housework?
(a) As something a woman cannot escape.
(b) As relatively easy work.
(c) As an ideal job.
(d) As demeaning.

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

13. 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 develop an inferiority complex.
(d) They embody and/or capitalize upon male definitions of power and success.

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

15. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.
(a) Society needs to discourage too much focus on work.
(b) From a purely money-oriented activity to an activity that enables, and enriches, life.
(c) From a male-dominated sphere to a woman-dominated sphere.
(d) People need to try new career paths.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's view, how should the beliefs about motherhood that she discusses be dealt with?

2. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?

3. What can the kind of power practiced by women from non-affluent communities enable them to do?

4. How did early (upper middle class, white) feminists regard work?

5. How does the author characterize the majority of feminist writing?

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