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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Feminist Masculinity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forced the shoe industry to produce low-heeled business shoes, according to hooks?
(a) Some women decided not to wear heeled shoes.
(b) Studies showed they were detrimental to health.
(c) Studies showed they were detrimental to a woman's ability to work.
(d) Businesses banned them.

2. What was the name of the professor who handed out one of hooks' poems?
(a) Abigail Adams.
(b) Diane Middlebrook.
(c) Tillie Olsen.
(d) An anonymous woman.

3. Which of the following is not an example of domestic violence?
(a) A man punches his son.
(b) A man punches a stranger on the street.
(c) A lesbian woman punches her lover.
(d) A man punches his wife.

4. Hooks said that which of the following did some women begin to understand that resulted in the focus of feminism shifting away from just the rights of privileged women?
(a) The position of the black female.
(b) The position of children.
(c) The position of black men.
(d) The position of white women.

5. In which decade did many women begin to choose not to wear bras and girdles?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does hooks give for why some women adopted feminist jargon without understanding it?

2. Hooks states that the first goal of feminism is which of the following?

3. According to hooks, what led many women to think they could establish the feminist agenda for women all over the world?

4. According to hooks, who did the media focus on when it came to feminist issues?

5. When feminism first began, hooks explains that which of the following was the second group feminism was split between?

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