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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. Which of the following is a consequence hooks describes as resulting from the fashion industry?
(a) Causing depression.
(b) Ruining self-esteem.
(c) Poor economy.
(d) Immoral women.

2. Hooks claimed that women wanted to be seen most favorably by who?
(a) Their peers.
(b) Men who controlled them.
(c) Their children.
(d) Women who supported them.

3. In which decade did many women begin to choose not to wear bras and girdles?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

4. Where were the earliest feminist meetings held?
(a) In town halls.
(b) In government buildings.
(c) In classrooms.
(d) In the homes of activists.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which university did hooks attend?

3. Which field did hooks claim the reformist movement focused on?

4. According to the text, who runs mass media?

5. When did hooks learn about feminist politics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did professors help hooks and other students?

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

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

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