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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hooks compare the characteristics of middle and upper class women to men of the same class?
(a) They are exactly the same.
(b) They are NOT the same.
(c) They have similarities but are not exactly the same.
(d) They are different but equal.

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

3. According to Hooks, what is automatically excluded when the standard of good theoretical works is established?
(a) Feminist theory and the works of colored women.
(b) Feminist theory ONLY.
(c) The works of colored women ONLY.
(d) The works of young professionals.

4. What did Hooks believe blacks had to do in order to attend traditionally white schools?
(a) Make straight A's.
(b) Get up early in the morning so they could be bussed to the traditionally white schools.
(c) Break into the school.
(d) Participate in protests and/or riots.

5. What is an example that Hooks gave of something of male effort that women benefit from in everyday life?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Sewage systems.
(d) Employment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hooks say about her interaction with white peers?

2. Who does Hooks believe is in charge of constituting what is considered good theory?

3. In Chapter 1, what did Hooks say with regard to all-black schools and the education process?

4. At what point in her school career did Hooks' personal experience take place?

5. What type of thinking did Hooks say is crucial to the educational process?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?

2. What did Hooks say about where the majority of feminist writings come from?

3. What did Hooks say about the general assessment of the theoretical works of women of color?

4. What did Hooks say about the political nature of education?

5. What form of speech did Hooks use to describe Paulo Freire, one of her intellectual influences?

6. In Chapter 1, what did Hooks say about the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh?

7. What did Hooks say about the psyches of women?

8. What was the overall theme of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" up to Chapter 6?

9. Hooks' first experience of racial integration was during her post-secondary school years. What was her perception of integration and education?

10. In Chapter 5, what issue did Hook face again within academic atmospheres?

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