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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hooks, when is the profession of teaching best served?
(a) When a teacher receives an award or promotion for a job well done.
(b) When all students understand what is being taught.
(c) When a teacher does so with the idea that he/she is nurturing free adults.
(d) When the parents of the students compliment the teacher's progress.

2. How did Hooks say her work is often received by its readers?
(a) It is criticized.
(b) It is well liked.
(c) It is incorporated into the text of many classes.
(d) It is ignored.

3. What is an example that Hooks gave of something of male effort that women benefit from in everyday life?
(a) Employment.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Sewage systems.

4. What example did Hooks give of something a woman has done to build a solid female intellectual tradition ?
(a) When Hooks' mother gave birth to her and her siblings.
(b) When Hooks published "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom".
(c) When Hooks' sister washed the dishes of a prominent businessman.
(d) When Hooks graduated from high school.

5. In terms of race, what type of attitude did Hooks discuss in Chapter 5?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) Black supremacy.
(c) Integration and equality.
(d) Separate but equal.

6. What did Hooks say about the work options for poorer people?
(a) They are jobs that the poor would enjoy.
(b) They are somewhat restricted.
(c) They are plentiful.
(d) They are jobs that will never allow for promotion.

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

8. What did Hooks feel like she was always punished for?
(a) Fighting with her siblings.
(b) Not washing the dishes.
(c) Questioning the matriarchal order.
(d) Questioning the patriarchal order.

9. How did Hooks feel within her family?
(a) Like an outsider.
(b) Like the most liked of the children.
(c) Like a burden.
(d) Like the one who had to take charge.

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

11. In choosing the profession she would like to pursue, which of the following strongly influenced her decision?
(a) Parents' opinions.
(b) College professors.
(c) Marital status.
(d) Social class and race.

12. What did the theorist mentioned in Chapter 7 say at the end of the chapter?
(a) Men are the ones who need to develop male psychological theories and practices.
(b) Women are the ones who need to develop female psychological theories and practices.
(c) Women are the ones who need to develop male social theories and practices.
(d) Men are the ones who need to develop female social theories and practices.

13. Chapter 6 said that Hooks' works include the framework that consists of analysis that is what?
(a) More important for men than women.
(b) Inaccurate.
(c) Natural and important for women.
(d) Only beneficial to privileged women.

14. What did Hooks believe about the best instructional teaching methods?
(a) They encourage students' involvement.
(b) All instructional teaching methods are created equal. There is no such thing as the "best instructional teaching methods."
(c) These methods are inherent and cannot be taught to teachers.
(d) They discourage students' involvement.

15. Hooks said when creating and sustaining theories, what difference is important to consider?
(a) Racial.
(b) Religious.
(c) Political.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of writing was Chapter 2 initially going to be?

2. Hooks said a woman with a high-paying career could represent which of the following?

3. In Chapter 5, what was the relationship status of Hooks' parents?

4. What theorist did Hooks mention at the end of Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 1, whose work did Hooks mention?

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