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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hooks claims that powerful men were threatened by which group of people?
(a) Young women.
(b) Black women.
(c) White women.
(d) Non-white people.

2. Hooks reports that which group was most displaced by high-profile women being put in the spotlight of the feminist movement?
(a) Working-class women.
(b) Feminist revolutionaries.
(c) Lesbians.
(d) Feminist reformists.

3. Which of the following is a result of fashion taking notice of women's demands in attire?
(a) Runway shows.
(b) New designers.
(c) Women's magazines.
(d) Feminist advertisements.

4. Anorexia and compulsive overeating are both described by hooks as being diseases with roots in lack of which of the following?
(a) Body weight.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Self-worth.
(d) Confidence.

5. The advent of no-fault divorces tended to favor who, according to hooks?
(a) Women.
(b) Whites.
(c) The government.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?

2. Who encouraged her students to think first about the fate of women from working-class backgrounds?

3. Hooks explains that which of the following is the second goal of feminism?

4. Hooks claims that when consciousness-raising groups re-emerge, who must be included?

5. In which classes at her university did hooks feel the most support?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does hooks think the feminist movement hope to reach a broad and diverse audience?

2. What has become more accepted by women as it becomes more acceptable for women to accept their bodies?

3. Why does hooks say that a feminist is made, not born?

4. Describe the challenges to abortion rights brought by Christian groups.

5. In the 1960s, how did women show they were not constantly worried about being accepted by men for their appearance?

6. What role does power feminism play in the downfall of feminism, according to hooks?

7. What did hooks mean when she said that feminism's greatest foe included the "enemy within"?

8. What effect did The Feminine Mystique have on feminism?

9. What types of policies, according to hooks, caused women and children to suffer abuse at the hands of existing patriarchy?

10. Which movement does hooks describe as being most intense in the 1970s?

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