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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. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?
(a) Inside their homes.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In shelters.
(d) While running daily errands.

2. According to hooks, what led many women to think they could establish the feminist agenda for women all over the world?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Confidence.

3. What type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?
(a) Low-class women.
(b) High-class women.
(c) Black women.
(d) Radical women.

4. Which type of feminists were dismayed to learn their leaders were committed to imperialism, according to hooks?
(a) Radical feminists.
(b) Revolutionary feminists.
(c) Reformist feminists.
(d) Conservative feminists.

5. Many feared that radical feminists wanted men to become which of the following?
(a) Homosexual.
(b) Emasculated.
(c) Uncaring.
(d) Ignorant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What movement rose when anti-feminist thinking gave rise?

3. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?

4. Hooks describes risky cosmetic surgery as occurring where?

5. What does hooks believe allowed women to choose to live with a man rather than to marry him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact did hooks describe visionary lesbians having on the feminist movement?

2. What is required for women to be liberated from Hooks' perspective?

3. Hooks claims that what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor and why?

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

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

6. Why and how did many working women receive mixed messages, according to hooks?

7. What did the conservative press tend to say about feminists?

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

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

10. What does hooks describe as the challenge to freedom?

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