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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, tensions about motherhood existed between which two schools of thought?
(a) Between doctors and midwives.
(b) Between feminists and civil rights activists.
(c) Between Americans and Europeans.
(d) Between early feminist thinking and traditional conception of motherhood.

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

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

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

5. 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 a disappointment.
(c) As a new form of slavery.
(d) As an imitation of patriarchal models of power

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

7. In the author's opinion, how did early feminists view violence against women?
(a) In a way, they echoed patriarchal ideas that men had inbred aggressive tendencies and women had submissive and nurturing tendencies.
(b) They frowned on discussing violence at all.
(c) They saw men as corrupt and women as innately innocent.
(d) They thought that gender was not really at play in problems of violence.

8. 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.

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

10. What has been the result of this mode of circulation?
(a) It has made feminist thought accessible to a wider range of women.
(b) It has kept feminist thought more localized, since word of mouth does not travel over large distances.
(c) It has limited access to feminist ideas to those who own televisions.
(d) It has limited participation in the movement to those who can read.

11. What notion about women and power do both sexist and traditional feminist culture share?
(a) That women experience and wield power differently from men.
(b) That women do not understand money.
(c) That women should not be in positions of power.
(d) That motherhood is a woman's right of passage.

12. What reason does the author give for lower and middle class women's relationship with power?
(a) They have lived in circumstances that required self-reliance, rather than dependency.
(b) They have met with a lot of defeat.
(c) They need further political education.
(d) They work all the time.

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

14. According to the author, in what form has feminist thought primarily been circulated?
(a) Via the radio.
(b) By word of mouth.
(c) Through television commercials.
(d) Via the written word (e.g. books, pamphlets, etc.).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suggest about many successful feminists and their relationship with power?

2. What observations does the author make about women and the practice of violence?

3. What has happened as a result of the form taken by the majority of feminist writing?

4. In the author's view, which prejudices is it important for women of color to transcend?

5. What is the author's central theory about the nature (and practice) of violence against women?

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