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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What need/expectation did Hooks say is common in poorer women?
(a) To get married.
(b) To earn money.
(c) To obtain a post-secondary school degree.
(d) To have children.

2. What did Hooks write about people who are experiencing very oppressive conditions?
(a) They are experiencing the oppression because they deserve it.
(b) They should deflect that oppression onto others.
(c) If it's not affecting one directly, he/she should not worry about it.
(d) All should be sensitive to those people.

3. What did Hooks say about the gender gap between black men and white women?
(a) The gap is too great for the two groups ever to consider having dealings with each other.
(b) Due to the major differences of the groups, they have immense hate and disdain for each other.
(c) It is sometimes improved by sexual attraction and interest.
(d) There is no gender gap between the two groups.

4. In terms of race, what type of attitude did Hooks discuss in Chapter 5?
(a) Integration and equality.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) Black supremacy.
(d) Separate but equal.

5. In the context of class, what did Hooks say could happen to the status of the black partner within an interracial (black/white) relationship?
(a) It could stay the same for the first year, then improve afterwards.
(b) It could stay the same.
(c) It could worsen.
(d) It could improve.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 9, what is much of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" about?

2. What Latina theorist did Hooks introduce in Chapter 5?

3. What did Hooks feel like she was always punished for?

4. What did Hooks say is a token of progress among women?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, Hooks gave the audience her true name. What is it?

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