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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many books about love tend to avoid?
(a) A clear definition of love.
(b) Images of platonic love.
(c) Images of romantic love.
(d) A clear definition of hatred.

2. What is afforded to men more than women?
(a) Love.
(b) Power.
(c) Rights.
(d) Strength.

3. What are boys often taught at a young age?
(a) How to respect women.
(b) To suppress their emotions.
(c) To express their emotions.
(d) How to build houses.

4. What are people born able to do, according to hooks?
(a) Eat.
(b) Lie.
(c) Respond to care.
(d) Love.

5. What is the foundation of loving practice, according to hooks?
(a) Charity.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Friendship.

6. What is a result of being unable to connect with others, according to hooks?
(a) Being lonely.
(b) Being mean.
(c) Being a bad person.
(d) Being unable to take responsibility for causing pain.

7. What happened when hooks stopped mourning her past?
(a) She got married.
(b) She got a cat.
(c) She made more friends.
(d) She was able to love again.

8. What does hooks say female fantasy is regarded as?
(a) Useful.
(b) Reality.
(c) Pure escape.
(d) Useless.

9. What are the foundations of love, according to hooks?
(a) Community.
(b) Justice.
(c) Care and affirmation.
(d) Power.

10. What is one tactic men use to gain power in relationships?
(a) Psychological terrorism.
(b) Lying.
(c) Yelling.
(d) Abuse.

11. What does hooks seek to know through this book?
(a) More about herself.
(b) The truth about men.
(c) Love's truth.
(d) Everything there is to know.

12. What does consumer culture encourage?
(a) Lying.
(b) Truth telling.
(c) Unhealthy eating.
(d) Healthy eating.

13. What did hooks realize when she came close to death?
(a) That she needed to write one more book.
(b) That she was terminally ill.
(c) That she wanted to travel more.
(d) That she had not known love yet.

14. Why does hooks encourage readers to let go of grief?
(a) To be more productive.
(b) She does not encourage readers to let go of grief.
(c) To know love again.
(d) To make more money.

15. What do children associate with lying?
(a) Protecting others' feelings.
(b) Good feelings.
(c) Sin.
(d) Being a bad person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many people in our culture not know, according to hooks?

2. What stopped happening to hooks when she was a child?

3. What, according to hooks, is privacy often confused with?

4. What does hooks insist people not born knowing how to do?

5. What does hooks say needs to happen to create a loving culture?

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