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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?
2. Which of the following is not an example of domestic violence?
3. Hooks claims there is a link between domestic violence and what?
4. What do some women blame for forcing them into the workforce, according to Hooks?
5. What does hooks describe as the anti-feminist backlash that is most damaging to children?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the consequences hooks describes of lacking sexual liberation?
2. What does hooks describe as the challenge to freedom?
3. What are two practices hooks described as originating from sexism and misogyny?
4. What are some important issues that feminists are concerned with in countries that are not the United States of America?
5. How did hooks, and other women, recognize that sexual liberation and sexual promiscuity were not the same thing?
6. Hooks claims that what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor and why?
7. As long as the patriarchal system of dominance survives, what are the consequences that hooks describes?
8. What did the conservative press tend to say about feminists?
9. When were black women finally able to voice their problems with racism in the feminist movement, according to hooks?
10. Hooks claims that patriarchal violence is based on what beliefs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does hooks mean when she says that one of feminism's greatest foes was the "enemy within"? Do you agree with her on this issue? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Why do we need a resurgence of feminism, according to hooks? Is the argument Hooks makes valid about a resurgence of feminism? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
What does hooks say about lesbianism as it is related to the feminist movement? Why does hooks say that many lesbians were more dedicated to feminism? Is this a valid argument? Why or why not?
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