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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the scenario that hooks presents, what did the young girl notice about the women who appeared on TV or in magazines?
(a) Black women only appeared when accompanied by black men.
(b) White women and black women appeared equally.
(c) Only men appeared.
(d) Only white women appeared.

2. Freer-thinking younger generation black women in which decades felt free to confront white feminists about racism from hooks' perspective?
(a) 1950s and 1960s.
(b) 1990s and 2000s.
(c) 1970s and 1980s.
(d) 1980s and 1990s.

3. Hooks describes one of the major focuses of the early feminist movement as being what?
(a) Raising girls to believe in themselves.
(b) Raising boys to respect girls.
(c) Raising children free of sexist thinking.
(d) Raising children to become good adults.

4. Hooks said that which of the following did some women begin to understand that resulted in the focus of feminism shifting away from just the rights of privileged women?
(a) The position of children.
(b) The position of black men.
(c) The position of the black female.
(d) The position of white women.

5. What term refers to abstaining from sex?
(a) Religious.
(b) Celibacy.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Lesbianism.

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

7. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?
(a) While running daily errands.
(b) In shelters.
(c) Inside their homes.
(d) On the streets.

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

9. From hooks' point of view, why did many conservative presses consistently present feminists as "man haters"?
(a) To actively encourage hate for women.
(b) To find a way to get others interested in feminism.
(c) To prove a true statement.
(d) To discredit the feminist movement.

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

11. Hooks describes which of the following as being the best example of anti-sexism thinking provided to children through the efforts of feminism?
(a) Shared parental responsibilities.
(b) Mothers being the head of the household.
(c) Children having two working parents.
(d) Parents discussing issues instead of fighting about them.

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

13. According to hooks, early activists were remiss for not stressing which of the following?
(a) Lesbian relationships.
(b) Mother-child relationships.
(c) Father-daughter relationships.
(d) Heterosexual relationships.

14. What movement rose when anti-feminist thinking gave rise?
(a) Men's oppression.
(b) Men's liberation movement.
(c) Children's liberation.
(d) Women's oppression.

15. Hooks makes it clear that a "woman-identified woman" was not synonymous with which of the following?
(a) Lesbian.
(b) Man.
(c) Woman.
(d) White woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Feminism teaches that the only relationships between men and women that can survive are those in which both support which of the following?

3. Which of the following did hooks describe as a barrier to the spread of feminism?

4. Hooks claimed that she was how old when she began confronting the issue of racism and demanding change?

5. What kind of religions did many feminists look to in the early days of the movement?

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