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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the reasons hooks points out that many people will not know love?
(a) Fear of love.
(b) Widespread cultural acceptance of lying.
(c) Lack of people in the world to love.
(d) Fear of truth.

2. What does one need to do to be well in one's soul?
(a) Eat healthier.
(b) Confront lovelessness.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Be nice to people.

3. What university did hooks teach at?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Yale.
(c) Boston College.
(d) Harvard.

4. When do people first learn about love?
(a) During childhood.
(b) People never learn about love.
(c) During adulthood.
(d) During adolescence.

5. What does hooks say needs to happen to create a loving culture?
(a) Nothing needs to change.
(b) Profound changes need to happen in the way people approach love.
(c) People need to stop being greedy.
(d) People need to try harder.

6. What did hooks realize as a child?
(a) Life was not worth living without love.
(b) She hates love.
(c) Love is for losers.
(d) Love is unnecessary.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who does hooks particularly admire?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Homemakers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

13. What is hooks reminded of every day when she goes into her kitchen?
(a) That love is not real.
(b) That love is only for certain people.
(c) That love can be found.
(d) That love is useless.

14. What made hooks begin to think more critically about love?
(a) A friend.
(b) A movie.
(c) A life-threatening illness.
(d) Her dog.

15. What does hooks think enables people to find paradise?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Joy.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is M. Scott Peck?

2. Who is Gloria Steinem?

3. What is the foundation of loving practice, according to hooks?

4. What does hooks say female fantasy is regarded as?

5. What does hooks say is a crucial element of any social movement?

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