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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does the author use as a metaphor for masculinity?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A cage.
(c) An octopus.
(d) A mirage.

2. The author marvels at the vast number of magazine articles and books all over the world that teach women how to do what?
(a) Manipulate and abuse other women.
(b) Attract or please men.
(c) Be submissive.
(d) Settle.

3. The author states unequivocally that society spends too much time teaching girls to worry about what?
(a) What other girls think of them.
(b) What boys think of them.
(c) Their appearance.
(d) Their future husbands.

4. The author states that "it is one thing to know something intellectually, and quite another to feel it" (20) in what way?
(a) In your gut.
(b) Spiritually.
(c) In your bones.
(d) Emotionally.

5. The author states that the socialization inflicted upon girls makes them grow up to be women who have by then turned what into an art form?
(a) Deception.
(b) Pretense.
(c) Submission.
(d) Manipulation.

6. The author states that in what kind of way, men rule the world?
(a) In a figurative way.
(b) In an obvious way.
(c) In a literal way.
(d) In an invisible way.

7. The author writes that "Gender as it functions today is a grave" (20) what?
(a) Travesty.
(b) Relic.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Antiquity.

8. The author states that most of the positions of prestige in the world are occupied by whom?
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) The rich.
(d) Politicians.

9. One of the participants in the author's writing workshop had been told by a friend not to do what?
(a) To talk to the author after the end of the workshop.
(b) To tell her husband about her enrollment in the workshop.
(c) To listen to the author's feminist ideas.
(d) To share her personal feelings with the author.

10. The author states that society teaches a woman at a certain age who is still what, to see it as "a deep personal failure" (29)?
(a) Childless.
(b) Without a home.
(c) Without a career.
(d) Unmarried.

11. What is NOT on the author's list of feelings that society teaches boys to fear?
(a) Fear.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Egomania.
(d) Weakness.

12. The author suggests that society start to raise boys and girls who do not link what two elements together?
(a) Masculinity and money.
(b) Masculinity and strength.
(c) Masculinity and size.
(d) Femininity and weakness.

13. What quality does the author say society praises in girls, but not in boys?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Submissiveness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Virginity.

14. The author states that in Nigeria, a Nigerian female walking into a hotel alone is automatically assumed to be a what?
(a) A sex worker.
(b) A divorcee.
(c) A feminist.
(d) A businesswoman.

15. What word does the author say she dislikes above all other English words?
(a) Defeminization.
(b) Machismo.
(c) Emasculation.
(d) Girly.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that society teaches girls to make themselves what?

2. The author states that "the problem with gender is that it" does what "rather than recognizing how we are" (33)?

3. The author states that women are instructed to always keep in mind that what aspect of life is the most important?

4. The author states that women have a greater number of opportunities than they did 50 years ago, thanks to changes in what two elements?

5. The author entreats the reader to "imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of" (33) what?

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