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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 does the word misogyny relate to?
2. Which type of feminists were dismayed to learn their leaders were committed to imperialism, according to hooks?
3. Without addressing the issue of racism in the minds of white feminist leaders, why would feminism be doomed in hooks' perspective?
4. Where are more women allegedly beaten and murdered?
5. In the 1960s, what fraction of America's women were working?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are two practices hooks described as originating from sexism and misogyny?
2. Hooks claims that women who stayed at home often felt which way?
3. How have men suffered from the patriarchal system, according to hooks?
4. When were black women finally able to voice their problems with racism in the feminist movement, according to hooks?
5. What role does spirituality and religion play in feminism?
6. What relationship did white feminists have to feminism in other parts of the world, according to hooks?
7. What is the difference between a "woman-identified woman" and a "man-identified woman"?
8. Describe a scenario in which somebody shows that patriarchal violence is acceptable.
9. What productive suggestions does hooks make for employment?
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 role does spirituality play in the feminist movement that hooks portrays? Why might spirituality in the feminist movement provide conflict?
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
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?
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