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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hooks claims there is a link between domestic violence and what?
(a) Militarism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Ageism.

2. What did some members of the media do to feed into the nation's homophobia?
(a) They claimed that all feminist men were gay.
(b) They claimed that women with equal rights would become lesbians.
(c) They referred to all feminist leaders as lesbians.
(d) They claimed there was no use for gay men.

3. How did some feminists react to younger black women deflecting attention from sexism to racism, according to hooks?
(a) The black women were ignored.
(b) The black women were called traitors.
(c) The black women were considered heroes.
(d) The black women were applauded but their ideas were ignored.

4. Hooks claimed that the women who tried to establish the feminist agenda for women in third-world countries were comparable to who?
(a) Classist men.
(b) Racist men.
(c) Unprivileged men.
(d) Racist women.

5. What kind of activists were conflicted about the inclusion of spirituality in the feminist movement?
(a) Atheist activists.
(b) Religious activists.
(c) Liberal activists.
(d) Conservative activists.

6. Which of the following is described by hooks as ending once the patriarchal system has been abolished?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Pain.

7. According to hooks, where do sex clubs exist that feminists should be concerned with?
(a) America.
(b) Middle East.
(c) Far East.
(d) Africa.

8. What is the other term that hooks uses to describe domestic violence?
(a) Family violence.
(b) Patriarchal violence.
(c) Hate violence.
(d) Male on female violence.

9. Who does hooks specifically say should be paid more?
(a) Stay at home mothers.
(b) Business women.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Doctors.

10. What type of impact does hooks see visionary lesbians as having on the feminist movement?
(a) Wavering.
(b) Negative.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Positive.

11. According to hooks, what liberates women?
(a) Work.
(b) Men's ideals.
(c) Having reproductive rights.
(d) Economic self-sufficiency.

12. According to many reformist thinkers, what made a woman liberated?
(a) If they had their own money.
(b) If they were happy.
(c) If they had a job.
(d) If they had children.

13. Which of the following is the definition given for domestic violence?
(a) A weak indvidual exerts force over a stronger one.
(b) A small-minded person exerts force over another person.
(c) A man control a woman through force.
(d) A powerful individual controls another through force.

14. It did not take women long to recognize that sexual liberation and which of the following were not the same, according to hooks?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Promiscuity.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Satisfaction.

15. Who did hooks describe as joining the feminist movement out of natural progression?
(a) Gay men.
(b) Activist lesbians.
(c) White men.
(d) Black women.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, how many cents out of each dollar that men earned did women earn?

2. Which group, according to hooks, has demonized feminism the most?

3. Who is most prominent to hooks as paving the way for reconsideration of racist issues for society?

4. Hooks claims that sexism could only be eliminated when men realized which of the following?

5. By the 1990s, hooks claims that half the women in America were which of the following?

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