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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Hooks explains that which of the following is the second goal of feminism?
(a) To end sexist exploitation.
(b) To end exploitation of students.
(c) To end exploitation of men.
(d) To end exploitation of children.

4. Hooks claims that focusing on what type of rights is necessary to protect the freedom of women?
(a) Sexual rights.
(b) Educational rights.
(c) Career rights.
(d) Reproductive rights.

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

6. What reason does hooks give for why some women adopted feminist jargon without understanding it?
(a) To fit in with their friends.
(b) To further their careers.
(c) To support and advocate feminism.
(d) To show intolerance of feminism.

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

8. Which type of feminist did hooks consider to be most distrusting?
(a) White feminists.
(b) Male feminists.
(c) Black feminists.
(d) Hispanic feminists.

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

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

11. How does misinformation spread, in hooks' point of view?
(a) Education.
(b) Mass media.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

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

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

14. Where were the earliest feminist meetings held?
(a) In town halls.
(b) In government buildings.
(c) In classrooms.
(d) In the homes of activists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks claimed that for feminism to regain momentum, what must be available for the masses, especially the young?

2. According to hooks, who needed to cede their self-appointed ownership of feminism?

3. As opportunities grew for women, what type of solidarity began to wither, from hooks' perspective?

4. According to hooks, who lost their jobs in the 1970s?

5. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?

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