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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. According to many reformist thinkers, what made a woman liberated?

2. Who does hooks claim will feel more entitled to maintain control by any means?

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

4. What type of women were typically reformist thinkers, in hooks' opinion?

5. What does hooks describe as the anti-feminist backlash that is most damaging to children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does spirituality and religion play in feminism?

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

3. Hooks claims that women who stayed at home often felt which way?

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

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

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

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

8. What types of violence constitute patriarchal violence?

9. Describe a scenario in which somebody shows that patriarchal violence is acceptable.

10. What did the conservative press tend to say about feminists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between reformist thinkers and revolutionary thinkers?

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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