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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. Hooks claims that feminist leaders must connect issues in other countries to issues where?

2. Early feminists looked to the spiritual works of a mystic named which of the following?

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

4. Hooks attributes who to contributing to young boys' distorted view of what defines masculinity when it came to feminist parenting?

5. According to hooks, how many cents out of each dollar that men earned did women earn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship did white feminists have to feminism in other parts of the world, according to hooks?

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

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

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

5. What impact did hooks describe visionary lesbians having on the feminist movement?

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

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

8. How did many white feminists react to black women pointing out racism within the feminist movement?

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

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

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

How does hooks define sexism and oppression? Do you think that sexism and oppression have the same presence in modern culture as in the past? Why or why not? What does hooks seem to think, and how do you know?

Essay Topic 3

What are some ways that hooks suggests feminism can gain momentum? Which ideas seem most realistic or practical? Why?

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