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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hooks claims that which group is trying to remove women's studies courses?
(a) Mormons.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Conservatives.
(d) Christians.

2. For centuries, what were women taught that their worth was, according to hooks?
(a) Their appearance.
(b) Their skills.
(c) Their money.
(d) Their intelligence.

3. What did hooks see as the basis that would ultimately undermine sexism and overthrow patriarchy?
(a) Upper class women.
(b) Children.
(c) Sisterhood.
(d) The bonding of the working-class women.

4. 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?
(a) Television.
(b) Mainstream media.
(c) Literature.
(d) Universities and colleges.

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

6. Which groups took the most issue with abortion and contraception?
(a) Christian groups.
(b) Patriarchal groups.
(c) Liberal groups.
(d) Atheist groups.

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

8. According to hooks, what gave permission for female bonding?
(a) Powerful men.
(b) The business world.
(c) Equal wages.
(d) Feminist movement.

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

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

11. Anorexia and compulsive overeating are both described by hooks as being diseases with roots in lack of which of the following?
(a) Body weight.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Self-worth.
(d) Confidence.

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

13. According to hooks, who lost their jobs in the 1970s?
(a) Custodians.
(b) Students.
(c) College professors.
(d) Factory workers.

14. 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) Ageism.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Sexual harassment.

15. Which group of women struggled most as a result of lower wages, according to hooks?
(a) Privileged women.
(b) White women.
(c) Lower class women.
(d) Black women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of woman does hooks describe as having the options of both contraceptives and abortions?

2. According to hooks, women's acceptance of their bodies has allowed them to accept what process?

3. As a result of which group's presence, according to hooks, is male domination expected?

4. Who do women need to stop mimicking, according to hooks?

5. What was the name of the professor who handed out one of hooks' poems?

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