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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 describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

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

3. Hooks claims that focusing on what type of rights is necessary to protect the freedom of women?
(a) Educational rights.
(b) Reproductive rights.
(c) Sexual rights.
(d) Career rights.

4. What types of abortions have anti-abortion movement groups targeted most?
(a) Abortions for single women.
(b) Abortions by black women.
(c) State-funded abortions.
(d) Abortions covered by insurance companies.

5. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?
(a) Lesbian activists.
(b) Activists who were mothers.
(c) Male activists.
(d) Teenage activists.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, who did the media focus on when it came to feminist issues?

2. When feminism first began, which of the following was the first group feminism was split between, as explained by hooks?

3. Which type of feminist did hooks consider to be most distrusting?

4. Who, according to hooks, ended up slowing progress because they did not deal with their own internalized sexism?

5. Where were the earliest feminist meetings held?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did industries change as a result of changing women?

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

3. According to hooks, what are the goals of feminism?

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

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

6. What does hooks believe caused the displacement of feminist revolutionaries?

7. What are the differences between reformist thinkers and revolutionary thinkers?

8. What did hooks describe as being the consequences of unwanted pregnancies?

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

10. Why does hooks feel that white females were the first leaders of the feminist movement?

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