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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hooks say about her interaction with white peers?

2. Hooks' intellectual influence wrote with the biases of what?

3. When did Hooks say finding a way to release the sense of dominance and oppression is crucial?

4. In terms of race, what type of attitude did Hooks discuss in Chapter 5?

5. Hooks said who must be happy in order for education to be most effective?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hooks describe dishonesty and how it can affect progress?

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

3. How did Hooks say it made her feel when she was not heard by her male colleagues?

4. Why did Hooks feel like her theoretical works were harshly criticized?

5. What did Hooks say about poor people and the need to earn money as adults?

6. According to Hooks, in what way did the concept of subject play a role?

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

8. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?

9. Was Hooks' first integrated friendship received with open arms?

10. In Chapter 6, what qualities did Hooks say a woman might possess to show that she is successful?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Hooks say about a poor woman's need for making money as an adult? What did these women consider a good job? Generally, what did their job prospects look like?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Hook's view of white supremacy. Did she agree that this concept was a necessary part of society? If not, what did she agree with in its place? What examples did Hooks give of times in her life that she was exposed to this notion?

Essay Topic 3

How did Hooks associate language with learning and her students? How did her students feel about being able to speak in the classroom? How did Hooks feel about her ability to speak within the classroom? Did anyone influence how she speaks and what she teaches?

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