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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 effect does Hooks hope "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" will have on society?

2. What company published "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom"?

3. In Chapter 9, what group did Hooks say is the dominant minority group in some parts of the United States?

4. In what year was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" published?

5. What did Chapter 14 say about the role the students say the teacher has in the learning process?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hooks used Chapter 9 to do what with many of the ideas she previously discussed? How did the readers feel about these ideas?

2. What new experience did Hooks say many American blacks are currently facing?

3. What group did Hooks thank as being the first audience who gave her the opportunity to discuss the main topic of Chapter 15 candidly?

4. What special characteristics are mentioned about Chapter 12?

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

6. What did Hooks say about the relationship between black and white women and white women and black men?

7. What did Hooks say in Chapter 12 about the present state of feminist theory?

8. Chapter 14 gave a preview to the main topic addressed in Chapter 15. What was the issue? What was the first observation that Hooks made?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Hooks' experience with integration of schools. Was it positive or negative? What did she learn from the experience? How did this integration serve as a historical moment for Hooks later in life?

Essay Topic 3

Describe what Hooks said about women who had been exposed to higher education and how they will view her work. From what perspective did they interpret her work?

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