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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. What personal experience did Hooks talk about in Chapter 2?
(a) Racial integration of schools.
(b) Class discrimination in schools.
(c) Gender identification within schools.
(d) Racial segregation of schools.

2. In Chapter 4, what important tenet did Hooks repeat?
(a) This is about education for liberation.
(b) This is about knowledge for freedom.
(c) This is not about knowledge for freedom.
(d) This is not about education for liberation.

3. What did Hooks feel like she was always punished for?
(a) Questioning the matriarchal order.
(b) Not washing the dishes.
(c) Questioning the patriarchal order.
(d) Fighting with her siblings.

4. What did Hooks say about male colleagues' lack of interest or unwillingness to listen to his female counterparts?
(a) It's NOT painful for men or women.
(b) It's painful for men.
(c) It's painful for women.
(d) It's painful for men and women.

5. What did Hooks say about the works that were published by the Latina theorist mentioned?
(a) They did receive the honor they were due.
(b) They did not affect the lives of anyone.
(c) They did not receive the honor they were due.
(d) They were originally written in Mandarin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hooks say about the work options for poorer people?

2. According to Hooks, students many times believe that learning is what?

3. What did Hooks say is necessary in order to achieve higher quality results when analyzing theoretical works?

4. What is the technical term for teaching?

5. What did Hooks say is not necessarily found in all social classes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hooks say "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" affected women who have been educated by the male system?

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

3. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?

4. What description of her past did Hooks give in Chapter 5 that enabled the reader to understand her view of the patriarchal system?

5. What were the two possible reasons mentioned in Chapter 4 that explain why "bell hooks" did not capitalize her pseudonym?

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

7. In what way did Hooks describe her feeling like an outsider within her own home?

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

9. What role did Hooks say student participation plays in the education process?

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

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