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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What will happen if people follow the course of action regarding beliefs about motherhood proposed by the author?
(a) It will help children learn about motherhood.
(b) It will help to eliminate systemic sexism.
(c) It will help new mothers to carry on traditions.
(d) It will expose others to non-western cultural perspectives.

3. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?
(a) Encouraging women to challenge their male professors.
(b) Encouraging women not to get lose sight of their families in their quest for an education.
(c) Encouraging women to strive for education and develop their intellects.
(d) Encouraging women to take more business classes.

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

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) It is a result of women entering the workforce in large numbers.
(c) Women invite violence by the way they dress.
(d) It is an innate part of male biology.

6. The title of Chapter Twelve, "Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle," refers to which of the following ideas?
(a) The feminist revolution will only be won via armed struggle.
(b) That the feminist movement must struggle for the benefit of developing countries.
(c) That feminist-oriented change is achieved through perseverance and hard work.
(d) Feminists create change by holding serious debates.

7. What was the early feminist belief about creating change according to the author?
(a) That armed resistance was the only way to achieve true change.
(b) That demanding necessary change and pointing out areas for that change would be enough to make it happen.
(c) It would happen once women took over the media.
(d) That change would not take place for another generation.

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

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

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

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

12. What do early feminist concepts of sexual liberty represent for the author?
(a) Another manifestation of women adopting male-defined, heterosexist attitudes.
(b) A more practical approach to sex.
(c) She does not say what they represent for her.
(d) A chance to finally be free from male desires.

13. How does the author present education in the title of Chapter Eight
(a) As a feminist agenda.
(b) As a teen agenda.
(c) As a dilemma.
(d) As as a class agenda.

14. How did the group initially discussed by the author characterize parenthood?
(a) As a social duty to create future citizens.
(b) As a luxury.
(c) As a form of discipline.
(d) As a trap, another way the male patriarchy exercised its power.

15. According to the title of Chapter Nine, what is one of the primary goals of the feminist movement?
(a) To end violence, especially against women.
(b) To create a government department overseeing women's issues.
(c) To legalize prostitution.
(d) To develop a new rating system for DVDs and video games.

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion about women and power do both sexist and traditional feminist culture share?

2. How should feminists behave towards consumerism, according to the author?

3. Overall, what is the author's approach to presenting feminist ideas in this book?

4. What change in attitudes towards work does the author propose in Chapter Seven.

5. In the author's view, how did early feminists understand work, i.e what did they identify as successful work?

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