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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. According to the continuation of Chapter 5, what did Hooks say about the method of achieving higher results when analyzing theoretical works?

2. How did Hooks compare the characteristics of middle and upper class women to men of the same class?

3. What did Hooks feel like she was always punished for?

4. Whose theoretical work did Hooks say may not properly be assessed?

5. When Hooks mentioned having meetings, who was initially a part of the meeting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the two possible reasons mentioned in Chapter 4 that explain why "bell hooks" did not capitalize her pseudonym?

5. What role did Hooks say student participation plays in the education process?

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

7. What were Hooks' views on nurturing independent thinking within the higher education environment?

8. What did Hooks say about where the majority of feminist writings come from?

9. In terms of the types of job opportunities available for poor people, what was Hooks' view?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Hooks feel about the way her theoretical works are assessed? Are they assessed fairly or unfairly? How did she feel about the way other minorities' works are evaluated? Who set the standard for how theoretical works are judged? Did she think there should be a change to how the standard is set?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Was the manner in which Hooks taught different when the majority of students were black as opposed to a majority of white? Explain how. How did she say her black students reacted to the white perspective of feminism?

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