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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hooks describes the conservative solution for the hard life of working women as what?
(a) Women working in their own offices.
(b) Women working in positions that require high education.
(c) Women staying home.
(d) Women working in business settings.

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

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

5. 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 the black female.
(b) The position of black men.
(c) The position of white women.
(d) The position of children.

6. Which of the following is not a result of bad relationships, according to hooks?
(a) Lack of sex.
(b) Unwanted pregnancies.
(c) Unhappy women.
(d) Child abuse.

7. What does hooks believe allowed women to choose to live with a man rather than to marry him?
(a) Sexual awareness.
(b) Sexual freedom.
(c) Sexual awakening.
(d) Sexual liberation.

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

9. 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.

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

11. What do some women blame for forcing them into the workforce, according to Hooks?
(a) The economy.
(b) Education.
(c) Men.
(d) Feminism.

12. When some feminists within the movement sought to make the movement anti-male, what did hooks claim they deflected?
(a) Female responsibility.
(b) Male responsibility.
(c) Black responsibility.
(d) White responsibility.

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

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

15. Without addressing the issue of racism in the minds of white feminist leaders, why would feminism be doomed in hooks' perspective?
(a) There would be no possibility for sisterhood.
(b) There would be no possibility to break down the bonds of patriarchy.
(c) There would be no possibility for liberation.
(d) There would be no possibility of feminism continuing on.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of relationships does feminism place the emphasis on, according to hooks?

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

4. What message does hooks attribute some feminists as being reluctant to send?

5. As hooks described, "man-identified woman" would readily give up her activism if it threatened a relationship with who?

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