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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. Who did hooks describe as joining the feminist movement out of natural progression?

2. What type of man does hooks describe as feeling unimportant and out of control?

3. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?

4. Which of the following is not an example of domestic violence?

5. What does the word misogyny relate to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe a scenario in which somebody shows that patriarchal violence is acceptable.

8. According to hooks, what still needs to be done for racial relations?

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

10. How did hooks, and other women, recognize that sexual liberation and sexual promiscuity were not the same thing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How and why was literature significant to the feminist movement in the way that hooks portrays it? How did literature written by women contribute to the end of gender bias in curricula?

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