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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Feminist liberation can only be a reality with societal shifts in what field, according to hooks?
(a) Career elitism.
(b) Educational elitism.
(c) Racial elitism.
(d) Class elitism.

2. What did hooks see as the basis that would ultimately undermine sexism and overthrow patriarchy?
(a) Sisterhood.
(b) The bonding of the working-class women.
(c) Upper class women.
(d) Children.

3. How does misinformation spread, in hooks' point of view?
(a) Mass media.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Education.

4. Who were hooks' alleged stars of the feminist movement early on?
(a) Children.
(b) Black women.
(c) White women.
(d) White men.

5. Hooks saw that some white leaders were at first resistant to including the struggles of what type of women in shaping feminist thought?
(a) Teenage women.
(b) Hispanic women.
(c) Elderly women.
(d) Black women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which decade did many women begin to choose not to wear bras and girdles?

2. Hooks describes which decade as having a resurgence of obsession with appearance?

3. According to the text, who runs mass media?

4. Hooks claims that powerful men were threatened by which group of people?

5. What was the second type of new policy that hooks' claims as creating a new underclass of women and children who suffered as a result of patriarchy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did female bonding play a role in the feminist movement from hooks' perspective?

2. What are the differences between reformist thinkers and revolutionary thinkers?

3. What did hooks mean when she said that feminism's greatest foe included the "enemy within"?

4. In the 1960s, how did women show they were not constantly worried about being accepted by men for their appearance?

5. What did hooks describe as being the consequences of unwanted pregnancies?

6. What did hooks describe as the two most important contributions to feminism?

7. How did the mass media portray feminists?

8. How did industries change as a result of changing women?

9. What differences between same-sex and co-ed classes did hooks notice?

10. What types of policies, according to hooks, caused women and children to suffer abuse at the hands of existing patriarchy?

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