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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 was the name of the book Betty Friedan wrote?
2. Hooks reports that which group was most displaced by high-profile women being put in the spotlight of the feminist movement?
3. According to hooks, which type of activists were among the first to put a voice to inequities in an understandable language?
4. Hooks describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?
5. According to hooks, who should have access to safe and affordable abortions?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did professors help hooks and other students?
2. Why does hooks feel that white females were the first leaders of the feminist movement?
3. What does hooks believe caused the displacement of feminist revolutionaries?
4. Hooks claimed that in order for feminism to regain momentum, what is essential?
5. What has become more accepted by women as it becomes more acceptable for women to accept their bodies?
6. What effect did The Feminine Mystique have on feminism?
7. What types of policies, according to hooks, caused women and children to suffer abuse at the hands of existing patriarchy?
8. What are the differences between reformist thinkers and revolutionary thinkers?
9. Which women had more access to contraceptives and abortions with the onset of the sexual revolution?
10. How did industries change as a result of changing women?
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
What role does marriage have in the feminist movement according to hooks? Why might it be appropriate or inappropriate for marriage and romantic partnership to exist in feminist activism? Is marriage sexist? What arguments does hooks offer?
Essay Topic 3
Does hooks provide sufficient evidence to convince you as a reader that the feminist movement can end all forms of oppression and sexism? Why or why not?
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