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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. In choosing the profession she would like to pursue, which of the following strongly influenced her decision?
2. According to Hooks, what should be a teacher's role with regard to students within a classroom and their interaction with other students in the classroom?
3. Hooks' intellectual influence wrote with the biases of what?
4. What was the first topic that Hooks talked about in Chapter 3?
5. According to the continuation of Chapter 5, what did Hooks say about the method of achieving higher results when analyzing theoretical works?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Hooks say about the effect of the feminist theory?
2. In terms of the types of job opportunities available for poor people, what was Hooks' view?
3. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?
4. According to Hooks, in what way did the concept of subject play a role?
5. Hooks' first experience of racial integration was during her post-secondary school years. What was her perception of integration and education?
6. Was Hooks' first integrated friendship received with open arms?
7. What were the two possible reasons mentioned in Chapter 4 that explain why "bell hooks" did not capitalize her pseudonym?
8. What did Hooks say in Chapter 3 about individual instructors' ability to speak freely in meetings at Oberlin?
9. What did Hooks say about poor people and the need to earn money as adults?
10. What was the overall theme of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" up to Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Hooks' overall perception of black women and white women. What similarities does she mention between the two groups? What differences? What does Hooks say is the focus of white women who are involved in feminist theory? What about the black women involved in feminist theory? How do the black and white women interact when it comes to competing for the attention of black men?
Essay Topic 2
Who is Chela Sandoval? What role did she play in Hooks' life in terms of teaching and education as a whole? What did Hooks think of Sandoval's work? What did Hooks say the public thinks of Sandoval's work?
Essay Topic 3
What two reasons were given for why Hooks used the pseudonym "bell hooks"? Why did she not use capital letters? Give specific examples of where these reasons were evident throughout the book.
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