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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. What did Chapter 14 say about the role the students say the teacher has in the learning process?
2. Chapter 9 said that Hooks' work would have been published through what system if it hadn't been flawed?
3. Who was the main target audience of this book?
4. What did Hooks say about women concerning many of the ideas she addressed in the book?
5. What did Hooks say the American population is going to be a reconfiguration of?
Short Essay Questions
1. What special characteristics are mentioned about Chapter 12?
2. What did Hooks say about black authors and feminists being one in the same?
3. What did Hooks say about language and its influence on the learning process?
4. Chapter 14 gave a preview to the main topic addressed in Chapter 15. What was the issue? What was the first observation that Hooks made?
5. Who was Ron Scapp? What role did he play in Hooks' life?
6. According to Hooks, what affected how she subjectively related to teaching?
7. Hooks said that teachers sometimes felt that their creativity was being suppressed. In what way?
8. What was the main issue addressed in Chapter 13? What was the first thing mentioned about this issue?
9. What did Hooks say about the method she used to teach her students when the majority of them were black?
10. According to Chapter 9, in what way was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" a failure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What perspectives did Hooks experience with regard to sexuality and education? How did they influence the way she taught? How did these experiences ultimately resolve? What place did Hooks say sexuality should have in education?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Describe what Hooks said about women who had been exposed to higher education and how they will view her work. From what perspective did they interpret her work?
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