Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Multiple Choice

1. D (Chapters 1-5)

2. A (Chapters 6-10)

3. D (Chapters 11-14)

4. B (various chapters)

5. C (Various chapters)

6. A (Various chapters)

7. B (Various chapters)

8. D (Various chapters)

9. C (Various chapters)

10. B (Various chapters)

11. A (Various chapters)

12. D (Various chapters)

13. C (Various chapters)

14. B (Various chapters)

15. A (Various chapters)

Long Answer

1. “Gloria Watkins,” her own birth name, is the name that hooks assigns to the interviewer in Chapter 4. This interviewer exists closer to the mental space that hooks existed in before her exposure to Freire’s work, and she does not understand Freire’s work in the same way hooks does. By contrast, hooks uses her chosen name, bell hooks, to identify the source of greater understanding: the interviewee explaining Freire and how her own work grew out of her encounter with his ideas. The two names convey two distinct stages of hooks’s intellectual life: before and after Paulo Freire. (Introduction-Chapter 4)

2. Even as a child, hooks was willing to question her parents’ authority and consider perspectives other than the one they tried to inculcate, because she was disturbed by her father’s patriarchal dominance in the family.