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

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

3. The third goal of feminism is which of the following, according to bell hooks?
(a) To end racism.
(b) To end intolerance.
(c) To end hatred.
(d) To end oppression.

4. Hooks saw that some white leaders were at first resistant to including the struggles of what type of women in shaping feminist thought?
(a) Teenage women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Elderly women.
(d) Hispanic women.

5. Hooks claims that if men fully understood the negativity caused by sexism in our society, what would never be able to avoid the true goal of feminism?
(a) Television.
(b) Literature.
(c) Mainstream media.
(d) Universities and colleges.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anorexia and compulsive overeating are both described by hooks as being diseases with roots in lack of which of the following?

2. As a result of which group's presence, according to hooks, is male domination expected?

3. What is defined as gaining power by the exploitation of others?

4. For centuries, what were women taught that their worth was, according to hooks?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does power feminism play in the downfall of feminism, according to hooks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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