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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is associated with the sexual revolution?

2. When the cosmetic industry worried feminism would ruin business, how did mass media portray feminists?

3. How does misinformation spread, in hooks' point of view?

4. Who encouraged her students to think first about the fate of women from working-class backgrounds?

5. Hooks believes that young women growing up at the time the book was written will feel that what issue is no longer a problem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which movement does hooks describe as being most intense in the 1970s?

2. How did professors help hooks and other students?

3. How did female bonding play a role in the feminist movement from hooks' perspective?

4. Which women had more access to contraceptives and abortions with the onset of the sexual revolution?

5. Why does hooks say that a feminist is made, not born?

6. What types of policies, according to hooks, caused women and children to suffer abuse at the hands of existing patriarchy?

7. How did conflict result as a matter of class and race in feminism?

8. What are the differences between reformist thinkers and revolutionary thinkers?

9. How did hooks believe that some women actually slowed down progress?

10. How did the mass media portray feminists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the feminist movement struggle so much to build consciousness and awareness? What suggestions does hooks offer? Are they valid? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of feminism in the workplace as hooks portrays it. Is feminism every inappropriate for the workplace? Why or why not? What role should feminism play in the workforce in general? Why do you think this is so?

Essay Topic 3

How does hooks define feminist masculinity? What role does feminist masculinity play in modern feminism and in general?

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