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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Hooks claims that if men fully understood the negativity caused by sexism in our society, what would never be able to avoid the true goal of feminism?
(a) Universities and colleges.
(b) Mainstream media.
(c) Television.
(d) Literature.

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

5. What type of funding does hooks suggest is a goal for the feminist movement in order to read a broad and diverse audience?
(a) Feminist TV network.
(b) Feminist publishing company.
(c) Feminist websites.
(d) Feminist films.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

13. When feminism first began, which of the following was the first group feminism was split between, as explained by hooks?
(a) Impressionist thinkers.
(b) Reformist thinkers.
(c) Intolerance thinkers.
(d) Faulty thinkers.

14. Hooks believes that young women growing up at the time the book was written will feel that what issue is no longer a problem?
(a) Sexual harassment.
(b) Ageism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Sexism.

15. What forced the shoe industry to produce low-heeled business shoes, according to hooks?
(a) Businesses banned them.
(b) Studies showed they were detrimental to a woman's ability to work.
(c) Some women decided not to wear heeled shoes.
(d) Studies showed they were detrimental to health.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ain't I a Woman published?

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

3. Hooks claims that when consciousness-raising groups re-emerge, who must be included?

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

5. Betty Friedan's book focused on which type of woman?

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