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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the author characterize the majority of feminist writing?
(a) As naive and uncritical.
(b) As utopian.
(c) As intellectual, academic and/or theoretical.
(d) As accessible to most literate women.

3. How does the author characterize early feminist concepts of sexual liberty?
(a) Freedom from sexual relations with men.
(b) The choice to have sexual relations whenever and with whoever one desires.
(c) She does not provide any description of such concepts.
(d) A complete rejection of romantic love.

4. Which one of the following ideas does not appear in the author's discussion of strategies for dealing with accepted beliefs about motherhood?
(a) Men must be encouraged to practice parenting.
(b) Parenting must also take place outside the home.
(c) Men should be the breadwinners, not the caregivers.
(d) Men must be encouraged to believe that they are capable of good parenting.

5. On what levels of culture and society is violence most likely to exist?
(a) Mostly on the interpersonal level.
(b) On all levels: family, community, government, international relations, etc.
(c) The author does not make a statement one way or the other.
(d) Mostly between countries at war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of society, for example, would women be able to work towards changing if they were freed from exploitation.

2. Besides spreading feminism and its goals, what else would be accomplished by the action promoted by the author?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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