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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was stereotyped and broadly given a sexist identity, according to hooks?
(a) White men.
(b) Women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Men.

2. Feminism teaches that the only relationships between men and women that can survive are those in which both support which of the following?
(a) Patriarchy.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Radical roles.
(d) Traditional roles.

3. Who is most prominent to hooks as paving the way for reconsideration of racist issues for society?
(a) Hispanic women.
(b) Black activists.
(c) Black men.
(d) White leaders.

4. According to hooks, how many cents out of each dollar that men earned did women earn?
(a) 90 cents.
(b) 73 cents.
(c) 23 cents.
(d) 50 cents.

5. Who or what are the victims of the patriarchal system hooks' describes?
(a) Children.
(b) Men and women.
(c) Education.
(d) The economy.

6. What does hooks describe as the anti-feminist backlash that is most damaging to children?
(a) The idea that women should have many children.
(b) The idea that it is dysfunctional for children to be raised in household where a mother is the head.
(c) The idea that men should never work at home.
(d) The idea that women should not be free to work outside the home.

7. What seems to be lacking in availability to men to help secure an identity not related to sexism and domination, according to hooks?
(a) Social outlets.
(b) Job security.
(c) Government programs.
(d) Educational venues.

8. What kind of religions did many feminists look to in the early days of the movement?
(a) Asian religions.
(b) Eastern religions.
(c) Western religions.
(d) Christianity.

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

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

11. In the 1960s, what fraction of America's women were working?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 2/5.

12. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?
(a) Revolutionist thinkers.
(b) Men.
(c) Students.
(d) Reformist thinkers.

13. Hooks proposed that more work needs to be done with the relationships between what kinds of women?
(a) White women in leadership and black women in leadership.
(b) White and black women in the workplace.
(c) Young white and young black girls.
(d) Elderly white and elderly black women.

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

15. What type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?
(a) Black women.
(b) High-class women.
(c) Low-class women.
(d) Radical women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does female circumcision occur as mentioned in the text?

2. Hooks attributes who to contributing to young boys' distorted view of what defines masculinity when it came to feminist parenting?

3. What does hooks believe allowed women to choose to live with a man rather than to marry him?

4. What type of man does hooks describe as feeling unimportant and out of control?

5. What did some members of the media do to feed into the nation's homophobia?

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