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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. In Chapter 2, what type of person did Hooks say she made friends with?
2. In Hooks' experience, what type of classes promotes a very high degree of the freedom of student involvement?
3. What type of writing was Chapter 2 initially going to be?
4. What is the technical term for teaching?
5. What did Hooks believe blacks had to do in order to attend traditionally white schools?
Short Essay Questions
1. Was Hooks' first integrated friendship received with open arms?
2. In Chapter 6, what qualities did Hooks say a woman might possess to show that she is successful?
3. What were Hooks' views on nurturing independent thinking within the higher education environment?
4. What was the overall theme of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" up to Chapter 6?
5. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?
6. What did Hooks say about where the majority of feminist writings come from?
7. According to Hooks, in what way did the concept of subject play a role?
8. What did Hooks say about the political nature of education?
9. How did Hooks describe dishonesty and how it can affect progress?
10. In Chapter 5, what issue did Hook face again within academic atmospheres?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Who is Chela Sandoval? What role did she play in Hooks' life in terms of teaching and education as a whole? What did Hooks think of Sandoval's work? What did Hooks say the public thinks of Sandoval's work?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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