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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did hooks spend much of her adult life trying to deny?
(a) That bad things had happened in her past.
(b) That she was unfulfilled.
(c) That she was unloved.
(d) That she was a bad person.

2. What stopped happening to hooks when she was a child?
(a) She stopped playing with friends.
(b) She stopped going to school.
(c) She stopped receving adequate love.
(d) She stopped crying.

3. What does hooks say of spiritual practice?
(a) It is not for everyone.
(b) It has to be affiliated with organized religion.
(c) It does not need to be affliated with organized religion.
(d) It is nice to try.

4. What does hooks say fear of death bring about?
(a) Safety precautions.
(b) Love.
(c) Intense paranoia.
(d) Joy.

5. How are men inclined to see love in a patriarchal culture, according to hooks?
(a) As something unimportant.
(b) As something they should give and not receive.
(c) As something they should give and receive.
(d) As something they should receive without giving back.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, according to hooks, do people learn how to lie?

2. What helped hooks to survive the trauma of lovelessness?

3. How did hooks manage to thrive growing up despite her dysfunctional family?

4. What does hooks say is largely absent from modern writing about love?

5. What does hooks think society fears most?

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