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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. During the experiences mentioned in Chapter 8, silence of what issues ended for Hooks?
(a) Matters of discrimination, politics, and age.
(b) Matters of race, class, and religion.
(c) Matters of insecurities, age, and class.
(d) Matters of race, class, and gender.

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

3. What is a difference between the upbringing of Hooks and her friend?
(a) She has a suburban upbringing while he has an urban upbringing.
(b) There is no difference. They both have a rural upbringing.
(c) She has an urban upbringing while he has a rural upbringing.
(d) She has a rural upbringing while he has an urban upbringing.

4. 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 are indifferent about Hooks' views.
(c) Women have said they are not concerned with the issues, but Hooks' ideas are good.
(d) Women have written her to let Hooks know her ideas are invalid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 9 said that Hooks' work would have been published through what system if it hadn't been flawed?

2. What did Hooks say is now the reputation of feminist theory?

3. In Chapter 12, what did Hooks say about the experience of white women?

4. According to Hooks, when is the system of oppression appropriate?

5. What type of experiences did Hooks write about in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hooks said that teachers sometimes felt that their creativity was being suppressed. In what way?

2. What did Hooks say about the relationship between black and white women and white women and black men?

3. In Chapter 8, what hierarchies did Hooks talk about dismantling? What will replace them?

4. What did Hooks notice about classes that consisted mainly of white women concerning their interest in feminist theory?

5. According to Hooks, what affected how she subjectively related to teaching?

6. What new experience did Hooks say many American blacks are currently facing?

7. What did Hooks say about girls and the oppressive conditions they face?

8. What did Hooks observe about the relationship between black women and white men? In what contexts did she speak of this relationship?

9. Who is the target audience for "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and what does this mean?

10. What did Hooks say about a woman's social status and its connection to her partner?

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