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Dimitris Sclias

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TEST02 profreadm02 a Reading comprehension.

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow by choosing the
correct answer a, b, c or d. -> only one answer is correct.

Sexism is the system that divides life roles according to sex, allocating to men the management of government, industry, science and art, and to women the role of housekeeper, child-rearer and plaything. Even when they work, women are bound into the same patterns: as secretaries housekeeping for male managers, teachers instructing children, stewardesses serving people on airplanes. It is this system that the feminist movement seeks to destroy. Aside from the different roles that men and women play in conception and childbirth, feminists believe that there are no roles in life that ought to be restricted to either men or women. Feminists are not against individual women being housewives. We are against the "housewife system", which says that no matter what a particular woman's talents and interests may be, it is "natural" and good for her to sacrifice such interests and ambitions to the task of making a home.
Women are individual; it makes no more sense to expect all women to be happy with the same job in life than it would be to expect all men to enjoy being carpenters. Yet we have been taught differently; we have learned that to be assertive, logical, adventurous and independent is to be masculine; that to be passive, irrational, timid and submissive-characteristics historically associated with subject peoples- is to be feminine. Why? Because women have always been defined by men. The tradition that a wife take her husband's name dates from the time when wives were literally their husband's property. Even today, most married women submerge their identities in those of their husbands. The change of name in more than symbolic, for a wife is expected to defer to the needs of her husband, to give up her interests to take care of his children and to follow him wherever his career may dictate.

81. The feminist movement believes that...

a. the roles of men and women should be the same
b. men have no role to play in conception and childbirth
c. the role of men and women in conception and childbirth ought not to be the same
d. the only difference between men and women should be the role in conception and childbirth

82. Feminists...
a. dislike housework
b. say that women should follow their interests
c. think that it is bad for a woman to look after a house
d. say that women have talents and interests and should not waste them looking after the house

83. Women...
a. would not enjoy being carpenters
b. all have the same job in life
c. should be free like men to choose their job
d. are happy if their husbands are carpenters

84. The author seems to suggest that women lack independence and logic
because...
a. they are given a different education
b. they are irrational and timid
c. those qualities are characteristically masculine
d. they have always been oppressed by men

85. The author says that the change of name when a woman marries...
a. is just a formality
b. makes her husband's property
c. takes away a woman's identity
d. symbolizes her husband's control over her

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