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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 claims that sexism could only be eliminated when men realized which of the following?
(a) They do not have to love all women.
(b) They do not have to hate women.
(c) They do not have to be masculine.
(d) They do not have to be dominant over anyone.

2. Hooks claims there is a link between domestic violence and what?
(a) Racism.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Ageism.

3. What is the other term that hooks uses to describe domestic violence?
(a) Hate violence.
(b) Patriarchal violence.
(c) Male on female violence.
(d) Family violence.

4. Where does female circumcision occur as mentioned in the text?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Canada.
(d) America.

5. What term refers to abstaining from sex?
(a) Religious.
(b) Lesbianism.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Celibacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to hooks, which forms of violence must be fought against?

2. Female sexual liberation was fancied by men who enjoyed having sex with what kind of women?

3. Hooks describes risky cosmetic surgery as occurring where?

4. Which type of feminists were dismayed to learn their leaders were committed to imperialism, according to hooks?

5. According to hooks, what did privileged-class white women expect lower classes and blacks to be in the feminist movement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

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