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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to hooks, who lost their jobs in the 1970s?
(a) Students.
(b) College professors.
(c) Custodians.
(d) Factory workers.

7. 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) Hispanic women.
(c) Elderly women.
(d) Black women.

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

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

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

11. In which decade did many women begin to choose not to wear bras and girdles?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

14. What did hooks see as the basis that would ultimately undermine sexism and overthrow patriarchy?
(a) Children.
(b) The bonding of the working-class women.
(c) Upper class women.
(d) Sisterhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks describe as one of feminism's greatest foes?

2. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?

3. Who do women need to stop mimicking, according to hooks?

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

5. As a result of which group's presence, according to hooks, is male domination expected?

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