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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to hooks, women's acceptance of their bodies has allowed them to accept what process?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Aging.
(c) Education.
(d) Mothering.

2. The advent of no-fault divorces tended to favor who, according to hooks?
(a) Women.
(b) The government.
(c) Men.
(d) Whites.

3. Which field did hooks claim the reformist movement focused on?
(a) Business.
(b) Politics.
(c) Law enforcement.
(d) Education.

4. What was the most sought after reproductive safegaurd in the sexual revolution?
(a) IUDs.
(b) Birth control pills.
(c) Condoms.
(d) Abortions.

5. In which decade did hooks see the feminist political movement diminish after the sexual revolution?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1970s.

6. What type of woman seems to fill up fashion magazine advertisements, according to hooks?
(a) Overweight women.
(b) Thin women.
(c) Blonde women.
(d) Unintelligent women.

7. What types of abortions have anti-abortion movement groups targeted most?
(a) Abortions by black women.
(b) Abortions for single women.
(c) State-funded abortions.
(d) Abortions covered by insurance companies.

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

9. What was the name of the book Betty Friedan wrote?
(a) Feminists and Women.
(b) Becoming a Feminist.
(c) The Feminist Manifesto.
(d) The Feminine Mystique.

10. Feminist liberation can only be a reality with societal shifts in what field, according to hooks?
(a) Racial elitism.
(b) Educational elitism.
(c) Class elitism.
(d) Career elitism.

11. How does hooks' "sisterhood" occur?
(a) Women must start loving each other.
(b) Women must stop dominating each other.
(c) Women must stop participating in societal patriarchy.
(d) Women must stop loving men.

12. Hooks reports that which group was most displaced by high-profile women being put in the spotlight of the feminist movement?
(a) Feminist revolutionaries.
(b) Working-class women.
(c) Feminist reformists.
(d) Lesbians.

13. When feminism first began, hooks explains that which of the following was the second group feminism was split between?
(a) Revolutionary thinkers.
(b) Modernist thinkers.
(c) Artistic thinkers.
(d) Cubist thinkers.

14. Which university did hooks attend?
(a) Stanford.
(b) UCLA.
(c) USC.
(d) Brown.

15. The third goal of feminism is which of the following, according to bell hooks?
(a) To end intolerance.
(b) To end racism.
(c) To end hatred.
(d) To end oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Betty Friedan's book focused on which type of woman?

2. Who were hooks' alleged stars of the feminist movement early on?

3. When was Ain't I a Woman published?

4. What did hooks see as the basis that would ultimately undermine sexism and overthrow patriarchy?

5. Hooks claims that which group is trying to remove women's studies courses?

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