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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As opportunities grew for women, what type of solidarity began to wither, from hooks' perspective?
(a) Solidarity among all races of women.
(b) Solidarity among all ages of women.
(c) Solidarity among men and women.
(d) Solidarity among all classes of women.

3. Hooks claimed that women wanted to be seen most favorably by who?
(a) Their children.
(b) Women who supported them.
(c) Men who controlled them.
(d) Their peers.

4. Hooks claimed that what needs a restart?
(a) Reformist feminism.
(b) Revolutionary feminism.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) True feminism.

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

6. In what decade were women's studies on a solid course toward acceptance?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

9. 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) Studies showed they were detrimental to a woman's ability to work.
(d) Some women decided not to wear heeled shoes.

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

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

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

13. Hooks claims that powerful men were threatened by which group of people?
(a) White women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Non-white people.
(d) Young women.

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

15. 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) Feminist reformists.
(c) Working-class women.
(d) Lesbians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does hooks' "sisterhood" occur?

3. What reason does hooks give for why some women adopted feminist jargon without understanding it?

4. According to the text, who runs mass media?

5. Which group seems to be writing the most articles in magazines geared toward women, as witnessed by hooks?

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