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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) Men and women.
(b) Education.
(c) The economy.
(d) Children.

2. 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 children.
(c) The position of black men.
(d) The position of white women.

3. What type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?
(a) High-class women.
(b) Low-class women.
(c) Black women.
(d) Radical women.

4. According to hooks, who knew the plight of the black woman better than anybody?
(a) Activists in the civil rights movement.
(b) Activists during the 1980s.
(c) White women who faced sexism at work.
(d) Activists during the civil war.

5. As hooks described, "man-identified woman" would readily give up her activism if it threatened a relationship with who?
(a) Family.
(b) Children.
(c) A man.
(d) A woman.

6. Hooks proposes that men and women should be given state aid for how long while they pursue a career?
(a) Less than a year.
(b) 1 year.
(c) While they are in college.
(d) 2 years.

7. According to hooks, how many cents out of each dollar that men earned did women earn?
(a) 23 cents.
(b) 73 cents.
(c) 90 cents.
(d) 50 cents.

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

9. What type of impact does hooks see visionary lesbians as having on the feminist movement?
(a) Wavering.
(b) Negative.
(c) Positive.
(d) Nonexistent.

10. 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) 1950s and 1960s.
(c) 1990s and 2000s.
(d) 1980s and 1990s.

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

12. What system allows dominance to survive, according to hooks?
(a) Capitalist system.
(b) Patriarchal system.
(c) Socialist system.
(d) Racist sytem.

13. Which of the following is the definition given for domestic violence?
(a) A powerful individual controls another through force.
(b) A man control a woman through force.
(c) A weak indvidual exerts force over a stronger one.
(d) A small-minded person exerts force over another person.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, what liberates women?

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

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

4. Where does female circumcision occur as mentioned in the text?

5. How did some feminists react to younger black women deflecting attention from sexism to racism, according to hooks?

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