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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What personal experience did Hooks talk about in Chapter 2?
(a) Racial segregation of schools.
(b) Gender identification within schools.
(c) Class discrimination in schools.
(d) Racial integration of schools.

3. In the continuation of Chapter 5, what did Hooks think about the interracial atmosphere?
(a) It is beneficial to whites but not blacks.
(b) It affords many difficulties.
(c) It affords many opportunities as well as difficulties.
(d) It affords many opportunities.

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

5. What did Hooks mention as a tool that cuts both ways with regard to progress?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Love.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Judgmental attitude.

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

7. How did Hooks describe the works of the Latina theorist introduced in Chapter 5?
(a) Spellbinding yet easily understood.
(b) Having some mystique and a possibly puzzling or unexpected power.
(c) Captivates its readers by presenting blatant untruths.
(d) Explains the importance of compromise in a world of dominance and oppression.

8. What did Hooks say is necessary in order to achieve higher quality results when analyzing theoretical works?
(a) Works written by men.
(b) Controls with flexibility.
(c) Works written by women.
(d) Firm controls.

9. What did Hooks say is a token of progress among women?
(a) The works women do in order to uplift the entire female gender.
(b) The fact that women work in male-dominated fields.
(c) Women giving birth to multiple babies.
(d) Women's desire to fill roles traditionally held by women.

10. At what point in her school career did Hooks' personal experience take place?
(a) During middle school.
(b) During secondary school.
(c) During elementary school.
(d) During undergraduate school.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 4, Hooks gave the audience her true name. What is it?
(a) Elizabeth Brown.
(b) Sally Williams.
(c) Gloria Watkins.
(d) Amy Wright.

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

13. 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.

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

15. At the end of Chapter 3, what school did Hooks mention?
(a) University of Massachusetts.
(b) Northwestern University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Oberlin College.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, Hooks said education is always which of the following?

3. Whose theoretical work did Hooks say may not properly be assessed?

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

5. What did Hooks say about male colleagues' lack of interest or unwillingness to listen to his female counterparts?

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