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Multiple Choice
1. Which is a common thread running through the first five essays in the text?
A) These essays establish hooks’s credentials to discuss pedagogical issues outside of her own classroom.
B) These essays use autobiographical stories to illustrate how much has changed in education over the years.
C) These essays detail practical classroom applications of hooks’s pedagogical theories.
D) These essays contribute to the reader’s understanding of hooks’s motivations and inspirations.
2. Which is a common thread running through essays 6-10?
A) These essays argue for the centrality of feminism, intersectionality, and understanding across identity groups.
B) These essays promote rigorous introspection for teachers and offer tools for conducting this self-interrogation.
C) These essays demonstrate how hooks’s own academic career has been curtailed and threatened by structural oppression.
D) These essays contrast an ideal expression of hooks’s theories with the compromises the real world requires.
3. Which is a common thread running through the final four essays in the text?
A) These essays advocate for increased attention to and funding for programs that elevate marginalized voices.
B) These essays explore the ramifications of academic theory in everyday life outside the classroom.
C) These essays show how engaged pedagogy can be used to dismantle capitalism through erasing class barriers.
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