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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first topic that Hooks talked about in Chapter 3?
(a) How to implement the transformations within the classroom that multiculturalism requires.
(b) How the classroom should not be the main venue for teaching. It begins at home.
(c) How the involvement of students is what makes or breaks the success of a teacher.
(d) How becoming a teacher can be beneficial to the individual as well as his / her students.

2. What did the theorist mentioned in Chapter 7 say at the end of the chapter?
(a) Men are the ones who need to develop male psychological theories and practices.
(b) Men are the ones who need to develop female social theories and practices.
(c) Women are the ones who need to develop male social theories and practices.
(d) Women are the ones who need to develop female psychological theories and practices.

3. What Latina theorist did Hooks introduce in Chapter 5?
(a) Cha Cha Ramirez.
(b) Karen Rodriguez.
(c) Chita Rivera..
(d) Chela Sandoval.

4. What did Hooks say about a wealthy woman who works by choice?
(a) She usually works jobs that do not pay a lot of money.
(b) She usually works jobs that do pay a lot of money.
(c) She is selfish for not wanting to stay at home with her children.
(d) This is a form of progress.

5. What did Hooks believe blacks had to do in order to attend traditionally white schools?
(a) Make straight A's.
(b) Break into the school.
(c) Get up early in the morning so they could be bussed to the traditionally white schools.
(d) Participate in protests and/or riots.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what important tenet did Hooks repeat?

2. What did the theorist mentioned in Chapter 7 say about himself?

3. What is an example that Hooks gave of something of male effort that women benefit from in everyday life?

4. Hooks said a woman with a high-paying career could represent which of the following?

5. Who does Hooks believe is in charge of constituting what is considered good theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the overall theme of "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" up to Chapter 6?

2. What did Hooks say about self-actualization?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 5, what issue did Hook face again within academic atmospheres?

7. What form of speech did Hooks use to describe Paulo Freire, one of her intellectual influences?

8. What did Hooks say about the psyches of women?

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

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

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