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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' description of domestic violence is connected to what kind of domination?

2. What system allows dominance to survive, according to hooks?

3. Hooks claimed that many women stay in bad relationships for what reason?

4. Hooks describes risky cosmetic surgery as occurring where?

5. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

How does hooks describe feminist parents? How can parenting be feminist? Why is feminist parenting significant to the feminist movement?

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