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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) She does not play close attention to how they interact with each other.
(d) There is a difference between the way she interacts with white peers and their interaction with each other.

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

4. What is the technical term for teaching?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Pedagogy.
(c) Educating.
(d) Sociology.

5. Chapter 6 mentioned what type of divisions between minority groups?
(a) Gender.
(b) Race.
(c) Class.
(d) Age.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Chapter 4 is an essay that mainly talked about how the works of Hooks' intellectual influence has been what?
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Hurtful.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Helpful.

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

12. According to Hooks in the continuation of Chapter 5, when is it important to consider the differences between classes?
(a) Considering class differences is a form of discrimination and should never be done.
(b) When maintaining theories.
(c) When establishing theories.
(d) When establishing and maintaining theories.

13. What did the theorist mentioned in Chapter 7 say about himself?
(a) Her ideas are superior to those of his male counterparts.
(b) He did what he could but what he could was absolutely limited by his own maleness.
(c) She did what she could but what she could was absolutely limited by her own femaleness.
(d) His ideas are superior to those of his female counterparts.

14. What type of person did Hooks say would most likely recognize how significant her work is?
(a) Women who are greatly involved in higher education.
(b) Women whose highest level of education is high school.
(c) Men who are greatly involved in higher education.
(d) Men whose highest level of education is high school.

15. According to Hooks, "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" consists of a great amount of analysis that are natural and _____ for women.
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Important.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Invalid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hooks say about some deceptions?

2. According to Hooks, what is automatically excluded when the standard of good theoretical works is established?

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

4. In the continuation of Chapter 5, what did Hooks think about the interracial atmosphere?

5. What example did Hooks give of something a woman has done to build a solid female intellectual tradition ?

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