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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the professor who handed out one of hooks' poems?
(a) Tillie Olsen.
(b) Diane Middlebrook.
(c) An anonymous woman.
(d) Abigail Adams.

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

5. According to the text, who runs mass media?
(a) Asian men.
(b) Jewish men.
(c) Black men.
(d) White men.

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

7. 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.

8. 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) Lesbian activists.
(c) Male activists.
(d) Activists who were mothers.

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

10. Hooks claims that which group is trying to remove women's studies courses?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Mormons.
(c) Conservatives.
(d) Christians.

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

12. The third goal of feminism is which of the following, according to bell hooks?
(a) To end hatred.
(b) To end oppression.
(c) To end intolerance.
(d) To end racism.

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

14. 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.

15. According to hooks, who did the media focus on when it came to feminist issues?
(a) Working-class women.
(b) Students.
(c) High-profile women.
(d) Black women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which classes at her university did hooks feel the most support?

2. Who should information about feminism be available to, according to hooks?

3. What decade did the book Ain't I a Woman address?

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

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

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