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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which field did hooks claim the reformist movement focused on?
(a) Education.
(b) Law enforcement.
(c) Politics.
(d) Business.

4. When did hooks learn about feminist politics?
(a) Before she took feminist classes.
(b) Before she attended elementary school.
(c) When she started writing books.
(d) After she graduated from college.

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

6. In what type of society is every voice heard, according to hooks?
(a) Neutral society.
(b) Patriarchal society.
(c) Feminist society.
(d) Revolutionary society.

7. What was the second type of new policy that hooks' claims as creating a new underclass of women and children who suffered as a result of patriarchy?
(a) Minimum wage laws.
(b) Dress code policies.
(c) Public strike laws.
(d) Welfare assistance.

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

9. Who, according to hooks, ended up slowing progress because they did not deal with their own internalized sexism?
(a) High-profile women.
(b) White women.
(c) Black women.
(d) Working-class women.

10. Which group seems to be writing the most articles in magazines geared toward women, as witnessed by hooks?
(a) Men.
(b) Poor women.
(c) Privileged women.
(d) Women.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hooks describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?

3. What is associated with the sexual revolution?

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

5. Feminist liberation can only be a reality with societal shifts in what field, according to hooks?

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