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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement rose when anti-feminist thinking gave rise?
(a) Men's liberation movement.
(b) Women's oppression.
(c) Men's oppression.
(d) Children's liberation.

2. Feminism teaches that the only relationships between men and women that can survive are those in which both support which of the following?
(a) Radical roles.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Traditional roles.

3. How did some feminists react to younger black women deflecting attention from sexism to racism, according to hooks?
(a) The black women were considered heroes.
(b) The black women were called traitors.
(c) The black women were applauded but their ideas were ignored.
(d) The black women were ignored.

4. Which of the following is closest to the definition of self-actualization?
(a) A woman who lives to serve her husband.
(b) A woman who lives for herself.
(c) A woman who identifies as a feminist.
(d) A woman who lives for her children.

5. What do some women blame for forcing them into the workforce, according to Hooks?
(a) The economy.
(b) Education.
(c) Men.
(d) Feminism.

6. Which of the following is described by hooks as ending once the patriarchal system has been abolished?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Pain.

7. Which of the following is not a result of bad relationships, according to hooks?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Unwanted pregnancies.
(c) Unhappy women.
(d) Lack of sex.

8. Who or what are the victims of the patriarchal system hooks' describes?
(a) The economy.
(b) Children.
(c) Education.
(d) Men and women.

9. According to hooks, who are still socially isolated from each other?
(a) Black women and white women.
(b) White women and all other women.
(c) Hispanic women and white women.
(d) Black women and all other women.

10. Hooks attributes who to contributing to young boys' distorted view of what defines masculinity when it came to feminist parenting?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Sisters.

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

12. Many feared that radical feminists wanted men to become which of the following?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Uncaring.
(d) Emasculated.

13. Who did hooks describe as joining the feminist movement out of natural progression?
(a) White men.
(b) Activist lesbians.
(c) Gay men.
(d) Black women.

14. In the 1960s, what fraction of America's women were working?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/5.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

15. When some feminists within the movement sought to make the movement anti-male, what did hooks claim they deflected?
(a) Female responsibility.
(b) White responsibility.
(c) Black responsibility.
(d) Male responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks used this term to describe the feminist view of men that is not threatening.

2. What type of impact does hooks see visionary lesbians as having on the feminist movement?

3. Hooks claimed that she was how old when she began confronting the issue of racism and demanding change?

4. What does the word misogyny relate to?

5. According to hooks, where do sex clubs exist that feminists should be concerned with?

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