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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. According to hooks, what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor?
(a) The demand that feminism address sexism.
(b) The demand that feminism address race.
(c) The demand that feminism address oppression.
(d) The demand that feminism address ageism.

2. In the 1960s, what fraction of America's women were working?
(a) 2/5.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

3. Which of the following did hooks describe as a barrier to the spread of feminism?
(a) Patriarchal religion.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Mormonism.
(d) Conservativism.

4. Hooks makes it clear that a "woman-identified woman" was not synonymous with which of the following?
(a) Lesbian.
(b) White woman.
(c) Man.
(d) Woman.

5. It did not take women long to recognize that sexual liberation and which of the following were not the same, according to hooks?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Promiscuity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of man does hooks describe as feeling unimportant and out of control?

2. Hooks claimed that she was how old when she began confronting the issue of racism and demanding change?

3. Hooks claimed that the women who tried to establish the feminist agenda for women in third-world countries were comparable to who?

4. Which group, according to hooks, has demonized feminism the most?

5. Which of the following is closest to the definition of self-actualization?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two practices hooks described as originating from sexism and misogyny?

2. What were the benefits of sexual liberation, according to hooks?

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

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

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

6. When were black women finally able to voice their problems with racism in the feminist movement, according to hooks?

7. What were some of the problems that hooks witnessed with feminist parenting?

8. How did many white feminists react to black women pointing out racism within the feminist movement?

9. What relationship did white feminists have to feminism in other parts of the world, according to hooks?

10. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

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