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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 one of the major focuses of the early feminist movement as being what?
(a) Raising boys to respect girls.
(b) Raising children free of sexist thinking.
(c) Raising children to become good adults.
(d) Raising girls to believe in themselves.

2. What did some members of the media do to feed into the nation's homophobia?
(a) They claimed that all feminist men were gay.
(b) They referred to all feminist leaders as lesbians.
(c) They claimed there was no use for gay men.
(d) They claimed that women with equal rights would become lesbians.

3. Which group, according to hooks, has demonized feminism the most?
(a) Atheists.
(b) Right-wing fundamentalists.
(c) Left-wing liberals.
(d) Religious groups.

4. Hooks describes which of the following as being the best example of anti-sexism thinking provided to children through the efforts of feminism?
(a) Children having two working parents.
(b) Mothers being the head of the household.
(c) Shared parental responsibilities.
(d) Parents discussing issues instead of fighting about them.

5. Hooks claimed that the women who tried to establish the feminist agenda for women in third-world countries were comparable to who?
(a) Unprivileged men.
(b) Racist women.
(c) Classist men.
(d) Racist men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the definition given for domestic violence?

2. Who or what are the victims of the patriarchal system hooks' describes?

3. Without addressing the issue of racism in the minds of white feminist leaders, why would feminism be doomed in hooks' perspective?

4. Which of the following did hooks describe as a barrier to the spread of feminism?

5. When some feminists within the movement sought to make the movement anti-male, what did hooks claim they deflected?

Short Essay Questions

1. As long as the patriarchal system of dominance survives, what are the consequences that hooks describes?

2. How have men suffered from the patriarchal system, according to hooks?

3. Why were many radical feminists allegedly dismayed by their leaders?

4. Describe a scenario in which somebody shows that patriarchal violence is acceptable.

5. What wisdom does hooks find that lesbians brought to the feminist movement?

6. Hooks claims that patriarchal violence is based on what beliefs?

7. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?

8. How did hooks, and other women, recognize that sexual liberation and sexual promiscuity were not the same thing?

9. What are some important issues that feminists are concerned with in countries that are not the United States of America?

10. What role does spirituality and religion play in feminism?

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