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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. Betty Friedan's book focused on which type of woman?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Business women.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Housewives.

2. As opportunities grew for women, what type of solidarity began to wither, from hooks' perspective?
(a) Solidarity among all classes of women.
(b) Solidarity among all races of women.
(c) Solidarity among men and women.
(d) Solidarity among all ages of women.

3. Hooks believes that young women growing up at the time the book was written will feel that what issue is no longer a problem?
(a) Ageism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Sexual harassment.

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

5. How did the basic tenets of feminism emerge, as told from hooks' perspective?
(a) Through discrimination and intolerance.
(b) Through debates and disagreements.
(c) Through reformist and revolutionary thinking.
(d) Through faithfulness to the cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did hooks see as the basis that would ultimately undermine sexism and overthrow patriarchy?

2. Which group of women struggled most as a result of lower wages, according to hooks?

3. Hooks claims that focusing on what type of rights is necessary to protect the freedom of women?

4. Who sought out dangerous, illegal abortions, according to hooks?

5. What decade did the book Ain't I a Woman address?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did the feminist movement encourage for education?

10. What did hooks describe as the two most important contributions to feminism?

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