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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to hooks, who knew the plight of the black woman better than anybody?
(a) Activists during the 1980s.
(b) White women who faced sexism at work.
(c) Activists in the civil rights movement.
(d) Activists during the civil war.

2. When was Ain't I a Woman published?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1971.

3. According to hooks, who undermines the feminist movement by disingenuously making claim to it?
(a) Women of color.
(b) Women younger than 30.
(c) Women of class.
(d) Women older than 50.

4. According to the text, who runs mass media?
(a) White men.
(b) Black men.
(c) Asian men.
(d) Jewish men.

5. Who encouraged her students to think first about the fate of women from working-class backgrounds?
(a) Tillie Olsen.
(b) Abigail Adams.
(c) Diane Middlebrook.
(d) bell hooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks saw that some white leaders were at first resistant to including the struggles of what type of women in shaping feminist thought?

2. How does misinformation spread, in hooks' point of view?

3. What does hooks describe as one of feminism's greatest foes?

4. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?

5. Who should information about feminism be available to, according to hooks?

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