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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How should adults regard children, according to hooks?
(a) As property, not people.
(b) As children.
(c) As adults.
(d) As people, not property.

3. What does hooks say we have to do to know love?
(a) Be nice to people.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Eat healthier.
(d) Lie.

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

5. What does living consciously mean, according to hooks?
(a) To think about one's family.
(b) To think about others.
(c) To think only about oneself.
(d) To think critically about oneself and the world.

6. What do many people in our culture not know, according to hooks?
(a) What love is.
(b) How to be an adult.
(c) What community is.
(d) How to be a good person.

7. What can love not coexist with?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Lust.
(d) Hatred.

8. What do dictionary definitions of love tend to emphasize?
(a) Unrequited love.
(b) Puppy love.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) Platonic love.

9. What hangs on hooks's kitchen wall?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Graffiti art.
(c) Photos.
(d) Pots and pans.

10. What does hooks say is an act of will?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Love.
(c) Lust.
(d) Revenge.

11. Why should children learn how to be responsible, according to hooks?
(a) So they can be good citizens.
(b) So they can help others.
(c) So they can learn how to cope with emotional responsibilities later in life.
(d) So they can learn how to be good workers.

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

13. What does hooks say cannot exist without love?
(a) Community.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Justice.
(d) Power.

14. Why did hooks live through most of her life broken-hearted?
(a) She was mourning her past.
(b) She was mourning death of her cat.
(c) She was mourning a break up.
(d) She was mourning death of a friend.

15. What is the first step in the process of loving for hooks?
(a) Embracing a new definition of love.
(b) Loving your family.
(c) Loving yourself.
(d) Telling people you love them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does consumer culture encourage?

2. What was hooks afraid of in her early adulthood?

3. What is a result of being unable to connect with others, according to hooks?

4. What did hooks spend much of her adult life trying to deny?

5. What made hooks begin to think more critically about love?

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