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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 was the major problem Hooks faced within the patriarchal framework?
2. What is the great leap forward that Hooks received from one of her male students?
3. What did many of Hooks' students of color think about feminism?
4. What relationship did Hooks say the formerly oppressed should have with former oppressors?
5. In Chapter 8, Hooks spoke of the importance of doing what to people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Hooks say about girls and the oppressive conditions they face?
2. According to Hooks, what affected how she subjectively related to teaching?
3. What did Hooks say about the relationship between black and white women and white women and black men?
4. What did Hooks notice about classes that consisted mainly of white women concerning their interest in feminist theory?
5. Hooks said that teachers sometimes felt that their creativity was being suppressed. In what way?
6. What group did Hooks thank as being the first audience who gave her the opportunity to discuss the main topic of Chapter 15 candidly?
7. Who was Ron Scapp? What role did he play in Hooks' life?
8. What did Hooks say about a woman's social status and its connection to her partner?
9. What did Hooks say about her making space for others to speak about class, race and gender issues?
10. According to Chapter 9, in what way was "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" a failure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What perspectives did Hooks experience with regard to sexuality and education? How did they influence the way she taught? How did these experiences ultimately resolve? What place did Hooks say sexuality should have in education?
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
According to Hooks, when is education at its best? What do teachers believe about their role before students are encouraged to participate in the learning process? What did Hooks believe about proper instructional methods and participation from students?
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