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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hooks say would be the experience for American blacks?
(a) How it feels when your minority is not the main one.
(b) How it feels when you transform from a minority to the majority race.
(c) How it feels when your minority is the main one.
(d) How it feels to not be considered a minority or majority race.

2. What is the last name of Hooks' friend mentioned in Chapter 13?
(a) Scapp.
(b) Bapp.
(c) Klapp.
(d) Dunlap.

3. According to Chapter 10, during the period of slavery, owning what made the distinction between the wealthy and the poor?
(a) Land.
(b) Horses.
(c) Children.
(d) Clothing.

4. 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 non-bisexual and non-homosexual white women.
(c) How it could improve life for bisexual or homosexual women.
(d) How it could improve life for black women.

5. Who was the main target audience of this book?
(a) White men.
(b) Black men.
(c) White women.
(d) Black women.

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

7. According to Chapter 10, many believed sexual relationships across racial boundaries are which of the following?
(a) Legal but not welcomed.
(b) A welcomed change.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Taboo.

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

9. Chapter 9 said that Hooks' work would have been published through what system if it hadn't been flawed?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Religious system.
(c) Political system.
(d) Higher education.

10. How did many of Hooks' male students feel about gender issues?
(a) They felt like the issues of gender and sexism do not exist.
(b) They felt like the issues of gender and sexism were not relevant to their lives and therefore, it is not necessary for them to learn about it.
(c) They felt like they already had a good grasp on the issues of gender and sexism.
(d) They felt like they were being pushed to learn about them and recognize sexism within society.

11. What did Hooks say is the most important thing for students and teachers to help implement improved strategies?
(a) Fear.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Monologue.

12. When Hooks was speaking of oppression in Chapter 8, to whom was she referring?
(a) Boys.
(b) Women in the workplace.
(c) Elderly men and women.
(d) Girls.

13. How did Hooks view the instructional methods used by teachers?
(a) There are not many to choose from.
(b) They vary according to the region of the country in which one lives.
(c) There are many to choose from.
(d) They vary according to the gender of the teacher.

14. Hooks began Chapter 10 by setting up the tension between what two groups?
(a) Rich and poor.
(b) Men and women.
(c) Black women and white women.
(d) Americans and foreigners.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hooks say the American population is going to be a reconfiguration of?

2. What did Hooks say should replace the hierarchies that are dismantled?

3. What racial tension did Hooks mention in Chapter 12 that she mentioned in previous chapters?

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

5. What is one problem Hooks addressed with regard to the works of blacks and women?

(see the answer keys)

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