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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. What system allows dominance to survive, according to hooks?
(a) Patriarchal system.
(b) Racist sytem.
(c) Capitalist system.
(d) Socialist system.

2. What type of impact does hooks see visionary lesbians as having on the feminist movement?
(a) Positive.
(b) Nonexistent.
(c) Negative.
(d) Wavering.

3. What message does hooks attribute some feminists as being reluctant to send?
(a) That the oppressor was part of the movement.
(b) That the feminist movement did not welcome new members.
(c) That the oppressor was always bad.
(d) That men were not allowed to be feminists.

4. Hooks proposes that men and women should be given state aid for how long while they pursue a career?
(a) 2 years.
(b) While they are in college.
(c) 1 year.
(d) Less than a year.

5. Which of the following is not a result of bad relationships, according to hooks?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Lack of sex.
(c) Unhappy women.
(d) Unwanted pregnancies.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, who knew the plight of the black woman better than anybody?

2. According to hooks, what led many women to think they could establish the feminist agenda for women all over the world?

3. In the scenario that hooks presents, what did the young girl notice about the women who appeared on TV or in magazines?

4. According to hooks, where do sex clubs exist that feminists should be concerned with?

5. Hooks claims that feminist leaders must connect issues in other countries to issues where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the consequences hooks describes of lacking sexual liberation?

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

3. Hooks claims that women who stayed at home often felt which way?

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

5. What does the text describe the consequences of the anti-male factions of the feminist movement as being?

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

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

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

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

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

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