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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In a culture of domination, everyone is taught to accept violence as a means of what?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Submission.
(c) Love.
(d) Control.

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

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

5. Hooks claims that it became clear that what was not the challenge to freedom?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Children.
(c) Man.
(d) Woman.

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

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

8. According to hooks, what did privileged-class white women expect lower classes and blacks to be in the feminist movement?
(a) Leaders.
(b) Watcher.
(c) Followers.
(d) Obeyers.

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

10. 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) Classist men.
(d) Unprivileged men.

11. Which of the following did hooks describe as a barrier to the spread of feminism?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Patriarchal religion.
(c) Mormonism.
(d) Conservativism.

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

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

14. Female sexual liberation was fancied by men who enjoyed having sex with what kind of women?
(a) Lesbian women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Feminist women.
(d) Uninhibited women.

15. Hooks describes risky cosmetic surgery as occurring where?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some women blame for forcing them into the workforce, according to Hooks?

2. Hooks describes which of the following as being the best example of anti-sexism thinking provided to children through the efforts of feminism?

3. Hooks claims there is a link between domestic violence and what?

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

5. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?

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