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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The teacher should encourage the interaction between the students.
(b) The teacher should request that the students only pay attention to the teacher.
(c) The teacher should discourage interaction between the students and the teacher. Ask the students to focus solely on the text.
(d) The teacher should not address the issue of interaction. He/she should allow the students to decide what is best.

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

3. What type of writing was Chapter 2 initially going to be?
(a) Poem.
(b) Essay.
(c) Song lyrics.
(d) Play.

4. What did Hooks say about some deceptions?
(a) They can be used to create psychological distress.
(b) They can be used to alleviate psychological distress associated with painful histories.
(c) They can be used to alleviate painful histories.
(d) They can be used to create painful histories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hooks say finding a way to release the sense of dominance and oppression is crucial?

2. At the end of Chapter 3, what school did Hooks mention?

3. What did Hooks believe blacks had to do in order to attend traditionally white schools?

4. What is different about the way Hooks prints her pseudonym on the cover of the book than you would find on most books?

5. What type of thinking did Hooks say is crucial to the educational process?

(see the answer key)

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