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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hooks claims that when consciousness-raising groups re-emerge, who must be included?
(a) Men.
(b) Government.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

2. Which of the following is most commonplace to hooks?
(a) Anorexia.
(b) Manic depression.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Diabetes.

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

4. What is the second factor that hooks alleges will diminish the necessity for abortions?
(a) Classes about contraception at community colleges.
(b) Meaningful sex education.
(c) Women having less sex.
(d) Free contraception.

5. What does hooks propose the public does to avoid passing on misinformation about feminism?
(a) Separate boys and girls in classrooms.
(b) Change school curriculum.
(c) Hold feminist group meetings on school campus.
(d) Hire more strong female teachers.

6. When feminism first began, which of the following was the first group feminism was split between, as explained by hooks?
(a) Faulty thinkers.
(b) Reformist thinkers.
(c) Intolerance thinkers.
(d) Impressionist thinkers.

7. Hooks believes that young women growing up at the time the book was written will feel that what issue is no longer a problem?
(a) Racism.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Ageism.
(d) Sexual harassment.

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

9. Hooks states that the first goal of feminism is which of the following?
(a) To end sexism.
(b) To end racism.
(c) To begin wage wars.
(d) To end oppression of children.

10. In the 1970s, which movement was most powerful in hooks' opinion?
(a) Fighting oppression in the media.
(b) Equality in the workplace.
(c) Sexual freedom.
(d) Reproductive rights.

11. 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.

12. What does hooks describe as one of feminism's greatest foes?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Christians.
(d) The "enemy within."

13. According to hooks, who is feminism not targeting?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Whites.

14. Hooks saw that some white leaders were at first resistant to including the struggles of what type of women in shaping feminist thought?
(a) Elderly women.
(b) Teenage women.
(c) Hispanic women.
(d) Black women.

15. Which of the following began to overshadow feminist politics, according to hooks?
(a) Careerism.
(b) Business.
(c) Racism.
(d) Tourism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks claims that which of the following would diminish the necessity for abortions?

2. Hooks claims that if men fully understood the negativity caused by sexism in our society, what would never be able to avoid the true goal of feminism?

3. Who sought out dangerous, illegal abortions, according to hooks?

4. How does hooks' "sisterhood" occur?

5. What is associated with the sexual revolution?

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