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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was hooks afraid of in her early adulthood?
(a) Heights.
(b) Telling people she loved them.
(c) Being intimate.
(d) Dogs.

5. Who is M. Scott Peck?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A chef.
(d) An actor.

6. Why did hooks want to write this book?
(a) To call for a return to love.
(b) To discourage people from love.
(c) To warn people about romantic love.
(d) For fun.

7. What does hooks say can heal wounds of the past?
(a) God.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Friendship.

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

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

10. 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 unloved.
(c) That she was unfulfilled.
(d) That she was a bad person.

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

12. What negates love, according to hooks?
(a) Power.
(b) Community.
(c) Justice.
(d) Abuse and neglect.

13. Where do many people turn to see their yearnings of love expressed?
(a) Mass media.
(b) Their teachers.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their friends.

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

15. Why was hooks unable to experience love for many years?
(a) She did not try enough.
(b) She was able to experience love her entire life.
(c) She did not care to know love.
(d) She was not ready.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to hooks, keeping secrets usually about?

2. How is love often depicted in pop culture?

3. What is crucial to love practice, according to hooks?

4. What do many books about love tend to avoid?

5. Why does hooks fear for young people?

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