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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 kind of activists were conflicted about the inclusion of spirituality in the feminist movement?

2. What kind of religions did many feminists look to in the early days of the movement?

3. According to hooks, working women received mixed messages from who?

4. Hooks claimed that she was how old when she began confronting the issue of racism and demanding change?

5. Which of the following is closest to the definition of self-actualization?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Hooks claims that patriarchal violence is based on what beliefs?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 did some women actually slow down the progress of the feminist movement in hooks' opinion?

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