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Question #1
According to bell hooks, individual women gaining power within different institutions will:
A.
Automatically prompt institutions to be responsive to women's needs
B.
Will have a great impact in changing legal discrimination against women
C.
It can improve the material conditions of a greater number of women but it will not necessarily root out systemic patriarchy
D.
Create healthier life styles for all
Question #2
A central argument of bell hooks' essay is that:
A.
Power is not something feminists pursue since it always leads to domination and destruction
B.
A feminist revolution depends on women trying to gain power in all aspects of society so that they can become equal with men.
C.
Women and feminists should think more consciously about how to transform power from "domination over" others to imagining new concepts of power and building alternative systems and that work toward liberation of all
D.
The feminist movement has been the most successful movement in re-imagining what power within society could look like
Question #3
According to bell hooks, women can exercise power by
A.
refusing to let the powerful define the meaning of 'femaleness'
B.
becoming corporate CEOs and senior executives
C.
documenting sexual harassment and discrimination
D.
none of these
E.
joining the military and running for elected office
Question #4
The Awlad 'Ali Bedouins in Abu-Lughod's article are:
A.
A nomadic community of people in which women are given very prominent roles and positions of power
B.
A nomadic community of people who live in Egypt's Western desert and who are highly patriarchal
C.
An Egyptian group of women who are fighting to change laws that discriminate against women
D.
A group of men who are in the ruling party of Egyptian government
Question #5
According to Lila Abu-Lughod, the Awlad Ali women figure out ways to resist patriarchal power in many ways. These include:
A.
Telling men that they do not have rights over the children, or anything that has to do with nurturance
B.
Protesting on the streets of Egypt and refusing to be silenced
C.
Every day acts of resistance, such as through poetry and daily acts of defying and making fun of male power
D.
Fighting to change laws of the country to gain equal rights
Question #6
According to Lila Abu-Lughod, the story that the women tell about how a man got eaten by a wolf reveals the following:
A.
How women make up stories that they share to make sense of the high rate of deaths amongst their male counterparts
B.
How women find ways to mock and make fun of masculinity even as they live within a thickly patriarchal society
C.
How men are forced to be hunters and put their lives at risk for their families
D.
How life for Bedouins is uncertain and full of dangers, especially for the men
Question #7
Which of main claims about the relationship between power and resistance does Lila Abu-Lughod make in her article?
A.
All of these
B.
Power is much more creative than resistance
C.
Where there is power, there is resistance
D.
Resistance is always bigger than and wins over power
Question #8
Which of the following claims does Sara Ahmed make about the family?
A.
It dictates our aspirations and orients us toward the future
B.
It pressures us to inherit a certain logic of happiness and love in the life and family structure we should also reproduce
C.
It is a point of origin, the place where our stories begin
D.
All of these
Question #9
What does Sara Ahmed mean by “snap can be a genealogy” (p. 192)?
A.
It testifies to our difficult but unbreakable ties to the structure of family and ethnicity we come
B.
It allows us to find a different political orientation and a different way of thinking about our place in the world. It can be a moment that sets into motion a different type of family structure for those who are case out of traditional family structures
C.
None of these
D.
It allows us to find a different political orientation and a different way of thinking about our place in the world. It testifies to our difficult but unbreakable ties to the structure of family and ethnicity we come
Question #10
What is a way that Sara Ahmed interprets a woman's moment of snap?
A.
It is hard to convey the pressure behind a woman’s snap to those who do not share the experience
B.
It is a response to pressure and tension, often unseen and enduring
C.
It can be a quick moment and movement that flashes and goes
D.
All of these
E.
It can be an expression of a collective act of feminist protest
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