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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hooks said teachers do best when they are what type of people?
(a) Self-absorbed people.
(b) High self-esteemed people.
(c) Self-actualizing people.
(d) Self-hating people.

2. What was the first topic that Hooks talked about in Chapter 3?
(a) How the classroom should not be the main venue for teaching. It begins at home.
(b) How the involvement of students is what makes or breaks the success of a teacher.
(c) How becoming a teacher can be beneficial to the individual as well as his / her students.
(d) How to implement the transformations within the classroom that multiculturalism requires.

3. When did Hooks say finding a way to release the sense of dominance and oppression is crucial?
(a) When operating under a system of oppression.
(b) Only when one is white.
(c) When operating under a system of dominance.
(d) It is not necessary. The idea of dominance and oppression are essential to a society.

4. What did Hooks say about her interaction with white peers?
(a) She does not play close attention to how they interact with each other.
(b) There is a difference between the way she interacts with white peers and their interaction with each other.
(c) It is similar to the way they interact with each other.
(d) She does not interact with white peers.

5. In Chapter 5, what was the relationship status of Hooks' parents?
(a) Divorced.
(b) Never married but are a part of the children's lives.
(c) Married but separated.
(d) Married and living together.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Hooks, what group of people were the masterminds behind the control system?

3. Chapter 4 is an essay that mainly talked about how the works of Hooks' intellectual influence has been what?

4. According to Hooks, students many times believe that learning is what?

5. Hooks said that sometimes oppression is the result of the need to find better ways of aligning what?

(see the answer key)

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