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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Race and Gender.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following began to overshadow feminist politics, according to hooks?
(a) Careerism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Tourism.
(d) Business.

2. According to hooks, what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor?
(a) The demand that feminism address oppression.
(b) The demand that feminism address ageism.
(c) The demand that feminism address sexism.
(d) The demand that feminism address race.

3. Who does hooks specifically say should be paid more?
(a) Stay at home mothers.
(b) Business women.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Doctors.

4. Hooks claims that powerful men were threatened by which group of people?
(a) Black women.
(b) White women.
(c) Non-white people.
(d) Young women.

5. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?
(a) Activists who were mothers.
(b) Lesbian activists.
(c) Teenage activists.
(d) Male activists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of woman does hooks describe as having the options of both contraceptives and abortions?

2. Without addressing the issue of racism in the minds of white feminist leaders, why would feminism be doomed in hooks' perspective?

3. What was the second type of new policy that hooks' claims as creating a new underclass of women and children who suffered as a result of patriarchy?

4. According to hooks, women's acceptance of their bodies has allowed them to accept what process?

5. Hooks describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?

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