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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 did Hooks say about black authors and feminist authors?
(a) Their works are NOT accepted by mainstream.
(b) They are NOT automatically one in the same.
(c) Their works are accepted by mainstream.
(d) They are automatically one in the same.

2. Hooks discussed the limitations of what?
(a) Language.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Thoughts.

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

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

5. What is the great leap forward that Hooks received from one of her male students?
(a) A novel.
(b) A speech.
(c) Music.
(d) A poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chapter 14 say about the role the students say the teacher has in the learning process?

2. What relationship did Hooks say the formerly oppressed should have with former oppressors?

3. What did many of Hooks' students of color think about feminism?

4. What was the profession of Hooks' friend?

5. What feeling towards men in her adult life did Hooks have as a result of her childhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 9, in what way was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" a failure?

3. Chapter 14 gave a preview to the main topic addressed in Chapter 15. What was the issue? What was the first observation that Hooks made?

4. What did Hooks say in Chapter 12 about the present state of feminist theory?

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

6. How did Hooks address the issue of dominance in Chapter 8?

7. Hooks used Chapter 9 to do what with many of the ideas she previously discussed? How did the readers feel about these ideas?

8. How did Hooks describe the patriarchal system she grew up in?

9. What was Hooks' profession at the time she wrote this book? When was the book published?

10. What group did Hooks thank as being the first audience who gave her the opportunity to discuss the main topic of Chapter 15 candidly?

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