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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of students did Hooks find is hardest to teach?
(a) Those who are black.
(b) Those who are white.
(c) Those who are suspicious.
(d) Those who are male.

2. Hooks said a woman's attachment to a given man could do what?
(a) Improve her social class.
(b) Not affect her social status.
(c) Diminish her social status.
(d) Increase her self-esteem.

3. According to Hooks, the absence of _____ freed her mind.
(a) Her compassion for others.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her students.
(d) The thought of what she would be like as a professor.

4. What racial tension did Hooks mention in Chapter 12 that she mentioned in previous chapters?
(a) Tension between black and white women.
(b) Tension between black men and white women.
(c) Tension between white men and black women.
(d) Tension between black and white men.

5. What is one problem Hooks addressed with regard to the works of blacks and women?
(a) When they are included but without any attendant changes in pedagogy.
(b) When they are not included and have attendant changes in pedagogy.
(c) When they are included and have attendant changes in pedagogy.
(d) When they are not included and therefore have no attendant changes in pedagogy.

6. What did Hooks say about the presence of a teacher in a classroom?
(a) It is appreciated but not necessary.
(b) It is not necessary.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) It is unappreciated.

7. For whom did Hooks say the purpose of higher education is to secure job training?
(a) Ron.
(b) John.
(c) Tom.
(d) Bob.

8. Hooks said that many white women are racist in what ways?
(a) Complexity or inactively and unintentionally.
(b) Complexity or actively and intentionally.
(c) Complicity or inactively and unintentionally.
(d) Complicity or actively and intentionally.

9. What relationship did Hooks say the formerly oppressed should have with former oppressors?
(a) They should have peace in their hearts but it's okay to sometimes exhibit behaviors that show there is tension.
(b) They should not have interaction with those who have formerly oppressed them.
(c) They should create and maintain peace.
(d) They should express overt hatred.

10. How did Hooks say her students feel about the input they have to offer?
(a) It's not valuable.
(b) It has its place but not in the academic environment.
(c) It's valuable.
(d) It may be valuable but they are not sure.

11. What did Hooks say about women concerning many of the ideas she addressed in the book?
(a) Hooks' ideas are the things that women have been thinking about for quite some time.
(b) Women have said they are not concerned with the issues, but Hooks' ideas are good.
(c) Women have written her to let Hooks know her ideas are invalid.
(d) Women are indifferent about Hooks' views.

12. Chapter 14 said that it is also often the case that there is a particular strain of _____.
(a) Subordinate discourse.
(b) Dominant recourse.
(c) Dominant discourse.
(d) Subordinate recourse.

13. What did many of Hooks' students of color think about feminism?
(a) They were not suspicious of it and didn't think it was relevant to their lives.
(b) They were not suspicious of it and thought it was relevant to their lives.
(c) They were suspicious of it and didn't think it was that relevant to their lives.
(d) They were suspicious of it but thought it was highly relevant to their lives.

14. What did Hooks discuss in Chapter 13?
(a) African American Studies.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Pedagogy.
(d) Literature.

15. What did Hooks combine in Chapter 13?
(a) Truth and fiction.
(b) Education and religion.
(c) Theory and practice.
(d) Love and marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 9, something about this book is symptomatic of what two things?

2. What did Hooks think is necessary to dismantle?

3. Hooks said what of each region of the United States?

4. What type of market did "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" appeal to?

5. In Chapter 8, Hooks spoke of the importance of doing what to people?

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