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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. What did Chapter 14 say about the role the students say the teacher has in the learning process?
(a) Teachers do not encourage or discourage the students from being heard.
(b) Teachers prevent their (the students') voices from being heard.
(c) Teachers encourage the opinions of the students only when they agree with his or hers. When their opinions do not agree with the teacher's, he or she discourages it.
(d) Teachers encourage the opinions of the students.

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

3. What did Hooks say affects how she subjectively relates to teaching?
(a) Other people's opinions of her.
(b) Only her preconceived notions.
(c) Preconceived notions and lack thereof.
(d) Only the lack of preconceived notions.

4. Hooks discussed the limitations of what?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Women.
(c) Language.
(d) Men.

5. Hooks talked about making space for what?
(a) Others to dance.
(b) Others to speak.
(c) Others to write.
(d) Others to cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of market did "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" appeal to?

2. In Chapter 8, Hooks spoke of the importance of doing what to people?

3. What did Hooks say about the presence of a teacher in a classroom?

4. What effect does Hooks hope "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" will have on society?

5. In Chapter 12, Hooks reminded her readers of what being used in her childhood home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What special characteristics are mentioned about Chapter 12?

2. Who is the target audience for "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and what does this mean?

3. According to Hooks, what affected how she subjectively related to teaching?

4. In Chapter 8, what hierarchies did Hooks talk about dismantling? What will replace them?

5. What did Hooks say about black authors and feminists being one in the same?

6. What new experience did Hooks say many American blacks are currently facing?

7. Hooks said that teachers sometimes felt that their creativity was being suppressed. In what way?

8. What did Hooks say in Chapter 12 about the present state of feminist theory?

9. According to Chapter 9, in what way was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" a failure?

10. What did Hooks say about girls and the oppressive conditions they face?

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