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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. Which of the following is not a result of bad relationships, according to hooks?

2. Hooks used this term to describe the feminist view of men that is not threatening.

3. Female sexual liberation was fancied by men who enjoyed having sex with what kind of women?

4. According to hooks, who are still socially isolated from each other?

5. In a culture of domination, everyone is taught to accept violence as a means of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

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

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

5. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?

6. When were black women finally able to voice their problems with racism in the feminist movement, according to hooks?

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

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

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

10. Why were many radical feminists allegedly dismayed by their leaders?

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

What does hooks mean when she says that one of feminism's greatest foes was the "enemy within"? Do you agree with her on this issue? Why or why not?

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