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

2. What reason does hooks give for why some women adopted feminist jargon without understanding it?
(a) To support and advocate feminism.
(b) To fit in with their friends.
(c) To show intolerance of feminism.
(d) To further their careers.

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

4. What type of woman seems to fill up fashion magazine advertisements, according to hooks?
(a) Blonde women.
(b) Unintelligent women.
(c) Thin women.
(d) Overweight women.

5. Which university did hooks attend?
(a) Stanford.
(b) USC.
(c) Brown.
(d) UCLA.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the basic tenets of feminism emerge, as told from hooks' perspective?

4. According to hooks, who is feminism not targeting?

5. When feminism first began, hooks explains that which of the following was the second group feminism was split between?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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