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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to hooks, what led many women to think they could establish the feminist agenda for women all over the world?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Hatred.

2. What type of imperialism did hooks describe many feminist leaders as subscribing to?
(a) Southern.
(b) Western.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Northern.

3. What type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?
(a) Radical women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Low-class women.
(d) High-class women.

4. Hooks describes one of the major focuses of the early feminist movement as being what?
(a) Raising children free of sexist thinking.
(b) Raising girls to believe in themselves.
(c) Raising boys to respect girls.
(d) Raising children to become good adults.

5. Hooks claims that it became clear that what was not the challenge to freedom?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Woman.
(c) Man.
(d) Children.

6. Hooks claims there is a link between domestic violence and what?
(a) Ageism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Socialism.

7. What type of impact does hooks see visionary lesbians as having on the feminist movement?
(a) Positive.
(b) Negative.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Wavering.

8. Hooks describes the conservative solution for the hard life of working women as what?
(a) Women staying home.
(b) Women working in their own offices.
(c) Women working in positions that require high education.
(d) Women working in business settings.

9. Hooks describes women as being veiled in which countries?
(a) Mid-eastern and African countries.
(b) Asian countries.
(c) America.
(d) South American countries.

10. 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?
(a) The position of children.
(b) The position of the black female.
(c) The position of black men.
(d) The position of white women.

11. Who or what are the victims of the patriarchal system hooks' describes?
(a) Education.
(b) The economy.
(c) Men and women.
(d) Children.

12. How did some feminists react to younger black women deflecting attention from sexism to racism, according to hooks?
(a) The black women were applauded but their ideas were ignored.
(b) The black women were ignored.
(c) The black women were considered heroes.
(d) The black women were called traitors.

13. Early feminists looked to the spiritual works of a mystic named which of the following?
(a) Julian.
(b) Jaylyn.
(c) Judith.
(d) Joslyn.

14. Hooks claims that who must fight domestic violence before it can be ended?
(a) Children and adults.
(b) Men and women.
(c) White and black women.
(d) White and black men.

15. Which of the following is closest to the definition of self-actualization?
(a) A woman who identifies as a feminist.
(b) A woman who lives for her children.
(c) A woman who lives for herself.
(d) A woman who lives to serve her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. It did not take women long to recognize that sexual liberation and which of the following were not the same, according to hooks?

2. What does the word misogyny relate to?

3. Which type of feminists were dismayed to learn their leaders were committed to imperialism, according to hooks?

4. Who did hooks describe as joining the feminist movement out of natural progression?

5. According to hooks, which forms of violence must be fought against?

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