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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did the basic tenets of feminism emerge, as told from hooks' perspective?
(a) Through faithfulness to the cause.
(b) Through discrimination and intolerance.
(c) Through debates and disagreements.
(d) Through reformist and revolutionary thinking.

4. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?
(a) Teenage activists.
(b) Activists who were mothers.
(c) Male activists.
(d) Lesbian activists.

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. What was the most sought after reproductive safegaurd in the sexual revolution?
(a) Abortions.
(b) IUDs.
(c) Condoms.
(d) Birth control pills.

10. 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) Welfare assistance.
(b) Public strike laws.
(c) Dress code policies.
(d) Minimum wage laws.

11. According to hooks, who undermines the feminist movement by disingenuously making claim to it?
(a) Women older than 50.
(b) Women of class.
(c) Women younger than 30.
(d) Women of color.

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

13. 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 reproductive laws.
(b) Conservative reproductive laws.
(c) Liberal immigration policies.
(d) Conservative immigration policies.

14. Who were hooks' alleged stars of the feminist movement early on?
(a) White men.
(b) Black women.
(c) White women.
(d) Children.

15. Who should information about feminism be available to, according to hooks?
(a) Young people.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Everybody.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks believes that young women growing up at the time the book was written will feel that what issue is no longer a problem?

2. What type of funding does hooks suggest is a goal for the feminist movement in order to read a broad and diverse audience?

3. In which decade did many women begin to choose not to wear bras and girdles?

4. When did hooks learn about feminist politics?

5. The advent of no-fault divorces tended to favor who, according to hooks?

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