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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 type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?

2. What type of relationships does feminism place the emphasis on, according to hooks?

3. What does hooks believe allowed women to choose to live with a man rather than to marry him?

4. According to hooks, what changed the face of the feminist movement more than any other factor?

5. Without addressing the issue of racism in the minds of white feminist leaders, why would feminism be doomed in hooks' perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why and how did many working women receive mixed messages, according to hooks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?

10. How have men suffered from the patriarchal system, according to hooks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does hooks say about lesbianism as it is related to the feminist movement? Why does hooks say that many lesbians were more dedicated to feminism? Is this a valid argument? 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

Hooks claims what were the effects of the sexual revolution on contraception and abortion?

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