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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. By the 1990s, hooks claims that half the women in America were which of the following?
(a) Students.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Working women.
(d) Liberated.

7. What kind of activists were conflicted about the inclusion of spirituality in the feminist movement?
(a) Religious activists.
(b) Conservative activists.
(c) Liberal activists.
(d) Atheist activists.

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

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

10. Where does female circumcision occur as mentioned in the text?
(a) Canada.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

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

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

13. Hooks claims that who must fight domestic violence before it can be ended?
(a) White and black men.
(b) Men and women.
(c) Children and adults.
(d) White and black women.

14. According to hooks, what led many women to think they could establish the feminist agenda for women all over the world?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Compassion.

15. What type of relationships does feminism place the emphasis on, according to hooks?
(a) Tyrannical and patriarchal.
(b) Equal and satisfying.
(c) Fun and casual.
(d) Religious and spiritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks used this term to describe the feminist view of men that is not threatening.

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

3. What term refers to abstaining from sex?

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

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

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