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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Hooks claims that feminist leaders must connect issues in other countries to issues where?
(a) Asian countries.
(b) Third-world countries.
(c) Their own societies.
(d) America.

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

6. According to hooks, who began engaging in sadomasochistic behavior, driving heterosexual women to turn to patriarchal models of sexual freedom?
(a) Radical lesbians.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Men.
(d) Conservatives.

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

8. Hooks claimed that she was how old when she began confronting the issue of racism and demanding change?
(a) 28.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 21.

9. Hooks used this term to describe the feminist view of men that is not threatening.
(a) Feminist testosterone.
(b) Feminist masculinity.
(c) Emasculated men.
(d) Feminine men,

10. Which of the following is closest to the definition of self-actualization?
(a) A woman who lives for herself.
(b) A woman who lives to serve her husband.
(c) A woman who lives for her children.
(d) A woman who identifies as a feminist.

11. Great concern exists among feminists for the plight of women in which countries?
(a) Asian countries.
(b) South American countries.
(c) Middle eastern countries.
(d) Third-world countries.

12. According to hooks, who are still socially isolated from each other?
(a) Black women and white women.
(b) White women and all other women.
(c) Black women and all other women.
(d) Hispanic women and white women.

13. Hooks describes women as being veiled in which countries?
(a) South American countries.
(b) Asian countries.
(c) Mid-eastern and African countries.
(d) America.

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) Promiscuity.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Freedom.

15. Which group, according to hooks, has demonized feminism the most?
(a) Right-wing fundamentalists.
(b) Religious groups.
(c) Left-wing liberals.
(d) Atheists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks describe as the anti-feminist backlash that is most damaging to children?

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

3. Which type of feminists were dismayed to learn their leaders were committed to imperialism, according to hooks?

4. Hooks' description of domestic violence is connected to what kind of domination?

5. Which of the following is described by hooks as ending once the patriarchal system has been abolished?

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