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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did many lower/middle class and/or non-white women respond to this view of work?
(a) It alienated them from feminism.
(b) They wanted more discussion of career possibilities.
(c) They agreed with it.
(d) Work was not part of their list of concerns at the time.

2. Which one of the following ideas is not mentioned by the author in her discussion of how feminist-oriented change can actually come about?
(a) Armed struggle.
(b) An understanding of the socio-political systems that give rise to and perpetuate sexist attitudes.
(c) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in women.
(d) A concerted and sustained effort to change sexist attitudes in men.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Related to education, what does the author see as one of the primary goals of feminism?

2. How does the author view housework?

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

4. How is the long and painstaking process of change experienced by societies like the United States?

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

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