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

2. What did Hooks say about most white people during the period of slavery?
(a) They were racist.
(b) They wanted to implement integration.
(c) They were too poor to own slaves.
(d) They owned many slaves.

3. What did Hooks say affects how she subjectively relates to teaching?
(a) Preconceived notions and lack thereof.
(b) Other people's opinions of her.
(c) Only the lack of preconceived notions.
(d) Only her preconceived notions.

4. What was the profession of Hooks' friend?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Minister.

5. How did many of Hooks' male students feel about gender issues?
(a) They felt like the issues of gender and sexism do not exist.
(b) They felt like they were being pushed to learn about them and recognize sexism within society.
(c) They felt like the issues of gender and sexism were not relevant to their lives and therefore, it is not necessary for them to learn about it.
(d) They felt like they already had a good grasp on the issues of gender and sexism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooks said a woman's attachment to a given man could do what?

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

3. According to Hooks, where and how to teach greatly affects whom?

4. How did Hooks view the instructional methods used by teachers?

5. During the experiences mentioned in Chapter 8, silence of what issues ended for Hooks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What accusation did Hooks say many black men face when in a relationship with a white woman?

8. What did Hooks say about the method she used to teach her students when the majority of them were black?

9. What was the main issue addressed in Chapter 13? What was the first thing mentioned about this issue?

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

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