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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does hooks seem to blame most for sweeping the issue of race under the rug?
(a) Black men.
(b) Black women.
(c) White men.
(d) White women.

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

3. Who was stereotyped and broadly given a sexist identity, according to hooks?
(a) Women.
(b) White men.
(c) Black men.
(d) Men.

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

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

6. Who does hooks claim will feel more entitled to maintain control by any means?
(a) Those who want power.
(b) Those in power.
(c) Those with no power.
(d) Those who can never have power.

7. Who does hooks specifically say should be paid more?
(a) Business women.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Stay at home mothers.
(d) Teachers.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Hooks' description of domestic violence is connected to what kind of domination?
(a) Male domination.
(b) Female domination.
(c) Racist domination.
(d) Child domination.

14. Which of the following is described by hooks as ending once the patriarchal system has been abolished?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Pain.
(c) Abuse.
(d) Sexuality.

15. Hooks claimed that the women who tried to establish the feminist agenda for women in third-world countries were comparable to who?
(a) Classist men.
(b) Racist women.
(c) Racist men.
(d) Unprivileged men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks proposed that more work needs to be done with the relationships between what kinds of women?

2. What kind of activists were conflicted about the inclusion of spirituality in the feminist movement?

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

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

5. In a culture of domination, everyone is taught to accept violence as a means of what?

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