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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. Who should information about feminism be available to, according to hooks?
(a) Young people.
(b) Children.
(c) Everybody.
(d) Women.

2. For centuries, what were women taught that their worth was, according to hooks?
(a) Their skills.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their appearance.
(d) Their intelligence.

3. When feminism first began, which of the following was the first group feminism was split between, as explained by hooks?
(a) Intolerance thinkers.
(b) Faulty thinkers.
(c) Reformist thinkers.
(d) Impressionist thinkers.

4. What is the second factor that hooks alleges will diminish the necessity for abortions?
(a) Meaningful sex education.
(b) Classes about contraception at community colleges.
(c) Free contraception.
(d) Women having less sex.

5. Who sought out dangerous, illegal abortions, according to hooks?
(a) Black women.
(b) Poor and black women.
(c) Minorities.
(d) White women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks reports that which group was most displaced by high-profile women being put in the spotlight of the feminist movement?

2. In the 1970s, which movement was most powerful in hooks' opinion?

3. What was the name of the professor who handed out one of hooks' poems?

4. Which group seems to be writing the most articles in magazines geared toward women, as witnessed by hooks?

5. What types of abortions have anti-abortion movement groups targeted most?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hooks claimed that in order for feminism to regain momentum, what is essential?

2. How did hooks believe that some women actually slowed down progress?

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

4. How did female bonding play a role in the feminist movement from hooks' perspective?

5. Which women had more access to contraceptives and abortions with the onset of the sexual revolution?

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

7. How did conflict result as a matter of class and race in feminism?

8. According to hooks, what is the ideal situation for women in terms of reproductive rights?

9. How did the mass media portray feminists?

10. What differences between same-sex and co-ed classes did hooks notice?

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