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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What main concepts were used in Chapter 4?
(a) Race and religion.
(b) Age and gender.
(c) Social and economic status.
(d) Subject and object as roles and perspectives.

2. What did Hooks say is a token of progress among women?
(a) The fact that women work in male-dominated fields.
(b) Women giving birth to multiple babies.
(c) Women's desire to fill roles traditionally held by women.
(d) The works women do in order to uplift the entire female gender.

3. What did Hooks mention as a tool that cuts both ways with regard to progress?
(a) Love.
(b) Judgmental attitude.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Dishonesty.

4. Hooks said in the meetings, there were remarks made that could be considered which of the following?
(a) Religious or sexist.
(b) Religious or political.
(c) Racist or sexist.
(d) Political or racist.

5. In Chapter 5, Hooks brought up the idea of race in what type of atmosphere?
(a) Poor.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Social.
(d) Academic.

6. In Chapter 3, Hooks said education is always which of the following?
(a) Religious.
(b) Racial.
(c) Political.
(d) Social.

7. Which of the following did Hooks say is a feminist statement?
(a) Her husband will not allow her to pursue career efforts.
(b) She is not sure if she is intelligent enough to pursue career efforts.
(c) Her husband supported her inherent career efforts.
(d) Her husband sourced and encouraged his wife to pursue career efforts.

8. Which school year reunion did Hooks mention in Chapter 2?
(a) 30th year.
(b) 20th year.
(c) 10th year.
(d) 15th year.

9. Which of the following is a factor that Hooks said affected her career path?
(a) Gender.
(b) Age.
(c) Educational background.
(d) Religious beliefs.

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

11. Hooks' intellectual influence wrote with the biases of what?
(a) Himself/herself and his/her time.
(b) His/her time.
(c) No biases.
(d) Himself/herself.

12. What type of thinking did Hooks say is crucial to the educational process?
(a) Independent.
(b) Sporadic.
(c) Corporate.
(d) Creative.

13. What personal experience did Hooks talk about in Chapter 2?
(a) Gender identification within schools.
(b) Racial segregation of schools.
(c) Class discrimination in schools.
(d) Racial integration of schools.

14. According to Hooks, what group of people were the masterminds behind the control system?
(a) Asian men.
(b) White men.
(c) Hispanic men.
(d) All men.

15. What did Hooks feel like she was always punished for?
(a) Questioning the patriarchal order.
(b) Not washing the dishes.
(c) Fighting with her siblings.
(d) Questioning the matriarchal order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks said when creating and sustaining theories, what difference is important to consider?

2. What did Hooks say is necessary in order to achieve higher quality results when analyzing theoretical works?

3. The bulk of Hooks' "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" cites which of the following?

4. How did Hooks say her work is often received by its readers?

5. How did Hooks compare the characteristics of middle and upper class women to men of the same class?

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