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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of imperialism did hooks describe many feminist leaders as subscribing to?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Western.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

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

3. What does the word misogyny relate to?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Homophobia.
(c) Racism.
(d) Fear of marriage.

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

5. Hooks claimed that many women stay in bad relationships for what reason?
(a) They couldn't afford to live on their own.
(b) They were unaware of divorce.
(c) They were in love.
(d) They wanted to prove to their parents they could make a relationship work.

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

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

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

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

10. What message does hooks attribute some feminists as being reluctant to send?
(a) That the oppressor was part of the movement.
(b) That the feminist movement did not welcome new members.
(c) That the oppressor was always bad.
(d) That men were not allowed to be feminists.

11. It did not take women long to recognize that sexual liberation and which of the following were not the same, according to hooks?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Freedom.

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

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

14. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?
(a) Men.
(b) Revolutionist thinkers.
(c) Reformist thinkers.
(d) Students.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?

2. When some feminists within the movement sought to make the movement anti-male, what did hooks claim they deflected?

3. Freer-thinking younger generation black women in which decades felt free to confront white feminists about racism from hooks' perspective?

4. Hooks describes the conservative solution for the hard life of working women as what?

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

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