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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hooks teaches feminist theory classes that include a majority of white women, what interest does she find that many of the women have in feminist theory?
(a) How it could worsen life for men who believe in the patriarchal system.
(b) How it could improve life for bisexual or homosexual women.
(c) How it could improve life for non-bisexual and non-homosexual white women.
(d) How it could improve life for black women.

2. What did Hooks write about people who are experiencing very oppressive conditions?
(a) If it's not affecting one directly, he/she should not worry about it.
(b) They are experiencing the oppression because they deserve it.
(c) They should deflect that oppression onto others.
(d) All should be sensitive to those people.

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

4. The friend of whom Hooks speaks in Chapter 13, is of what race?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) African American.
(d) Asian.

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

6. Hooks used Chapter 9 to do what with many of her ideas?
(a) Attribute to others.
(b) Clarify.
(c) Discredit.
(d) Retract.

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

8. Hooks said what of each region of the United States?
(a) They have their own ideas and language.
(b) They have their own demographics and types of people.
(c) They have their own language and types of people.
(d) They have their own demographics and types of religion.

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

10. According to Hooks, where and how to teach greatly affects whom?
(a) Teachers only.
(b) Students only.
(c) School administrators.
(d) Both students and teachers.

11. According to Chapter 9, what is much of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" about?
(a) The establishment of the Feminist movement.
(b) How to find and marry the person one loves.
(c) Obvious and subtle reasons why her work hasn't been published by a certain press.
(d) Ways to defy the ruling political party.

12. What did Hooks say women needed to move forward with?
(a) The social equivalent of objectives.
(b) The social equivalent of mission statements.
(c) The emotional equivalent of mission statements.
(d) The emotional equivalent of objectives.

13. According to Hooks, who are more vulnerable to white men than white women?
(a) Chinese women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Hispanic men.
(d) Black men.

14. In Chapter 12, Hooks wrote about the patriarchal structure within what context?
(a) Black and white.
(b) Non-American.
(c) All black.
(d) All white.

15. What did Hooks say about most white people during the period of slavery?
(a) They were too poor to own slaves.
(b) They owned many slaves.
(c) They wanted to implement integration.
(d) They were racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hooks say her students feel about the input they have to offer?

2. When Hooks was speaking of oppression in Chapter 8, to whom was she referring?

3. What is a difference between the upbringing of Hooks and her friend?

4. What did Hooks discuss in Chapter 13?

5. Who was the main target audience of this book?

(see the answer keys)

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