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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. Freer-thinking younger generation black women in which decades felt free to confront white feminists about racism from hooks' perspective?

2. Hooks describes which of the following as being the best example of anti-sexism thinking provided to children through the efforts of feminism?

3. Hooks said that which of the following did some women begin to understand that resulted in the focus of feminism shifting away from just the rights of privileged women?

4. Which of the following is described by hooks as ending once the patriarchal system has been abolished?

5. According to hooks, who knew the plight of the black woman better than anybody?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?

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

6. What is required for women to be liberated from Hooks' perspective?

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

8. What are two practices hooks described as originating from sexism and misogyny?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the goals of feminism according to hooks? How do feminists seek to accomplish the goals that the movement has set in the way hooks portrays these events? Why are these goals important?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What role does spirituality play in the feminist movement that hooks portrays? Why might spirituality in the feminist movement provide conflict?

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