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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hooks describes that what was the first type of new policy that created a new underclass of women and children who suffered as a result of patriarchy?
(a) Liberal immigration policies.
(b) Conservative reproductive laws.
(c) Liberal reproductive laws.
(d) Conservative immigration policies.

3. Which of the following is a consequence hooks describes as resulting from the fashion industry?
(a) Immoral women.
(b) Ruining self-esteem.
(c) Causing depression.
(d) Poor economy.

4. What is defined as gaining power by the exploitation of others?
(a) True feminism.
(b) Intolerable feminism.
(c) Power feminism.
(d) Reformist feminism.

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

6. Who sought out dangerous, illegal abortions, according to hooks?
(a) White women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Poor and black women.
(d) Minorities.

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

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

9. When the cosmetic industry worried feminism would ruin business, how did mass media portray feminists?
(a) As stupid and naive.
(b) As intelligent and educated.
(c) As masculine and ugly.
(d) As mean and rude.

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

11. Hooks describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Hooks reports that which group was most displaced by high-profile women being put in the spotlight of the feminist movement?

4. According to hooks, what gave permission for female bonding?

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

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