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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hooks claims that which of the following would diminish the necessity for abortions?
(a) Education about domestic abuse.
(b) Religious groups.
(c) Access to contraceptives.
(d) Abstinence education.

3. What does hooks propose the public does to avoid passing on misinformation about feminism?
(a) Separate boys and girls in classrooms.
(b) Hold feminist group meetings on school campus.
(c) Hire more strong female teachers.
(d) Change school curriculum.

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

5. Which type of woman does hooks describe as having the options of both contraceptives and abortions?
(a) White women.
(b) Privileged women.
(c) Black women.
(d) Poor women.

6. According to hooks, women's acceptance of their bodies has allowed them to accept what process?
(a) Aging.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Education.

7. Which university did hooks attend?
(a) Brown.
(b) Stanford.
(c) UCLA.
(d) USC.

8. In which decade did hooks see the feminist political movement diminish after the sexual revolution?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 2000s.

9. 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) Literature.
(d) Television.

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

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

12. Where were the earliest feminist meetings held?
(a) In the homes of activists.
(b) In government buildings.
(c) In town halls.
(d) In classrooms.

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

14. 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) Lesbian activists.
(d) Male activists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade were women's studies on a solid course toward acceptance?

2. Which groups took the most issue with abortion and contraception?

3. Which of the following is a result of fashion taking notice of women's demands in attire?

4. 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?

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

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