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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 was the profession of Hooks' friend?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Minister.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Doctor.
2. According to Chapter 9, individuals from what portion of Asia make up the dominant minority group in a number of places in the US?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.
3. What effect does Hooks hope "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" will have on society?
(a) She hopes it will not create a biased perspective on the black American female situation.
(b) She hopes it will not create a biased perspective on the white American female situation.
(c) She hopes it will create an unbiased perspective on the white American female situation.
(d) She hopes it will create an unbiased perspective on the black American female situation.
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 improve life for black women.
(b) How it could worsen life for men who believe in the patriarchal system.
(c) How it could improve life for non-bisexual and non-homosexual white women.
(d) How it could improve life for bisexual or homosexual women.
5. What did Hooks say the American population is going to be a reconfiguration of?
(a) Total segregation of all races.
(b) Melting pot of minorities.
(c) Separate but equal races.
(d) One race.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the last name of Hooks' friend mentioned in Chapter 13?
2. What type of market did "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" appeal to?
3. In what year was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" published?
4. Hooks discussed the limitations of what?
5. Hooks began Chapter 10 by setting up the tension between what two groups?
Short Essay Questions
1. What group did Hooks thank as being the first audience who gave her the opportunity to discuss the main topic of Chapter 15 candidly?
2. What did Hooks say about the method she used to teach her students when the majority of them were black?
3. What special characteristics are mentioned about Chapter 12?
4. According to Chapter 9, in what way was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" a failure?
5. Hooks used Chapter 9 to do what with many of the ideas she previously discussed? How did the readers feel about these ideas?
6. What accusation did Hooks say many black men face when in a relationship with a white woman?
7. What did Hooks say about girls and the oppressive conditions they face?
8. What did Hooks say in Chapter 12 about the present state of feminist theory?
9. Hooks said that teachers sometimes felt that their creativity was being suppressed. In what way?
10. What did Hooks say about black authors and feminists being one in the same?
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