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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does hooks say is the responsibillity of adults?
(a) To love children.
(b) To discipline children.
(c) To fear children.
(d) To hate children.

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

3. What does hooks write that most children associate with love?
(a) Family.
(b) Bad feelings.
(c) Good feelings.
(d) Guilt.

4. 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.

5. Who in hooks' life have always lied?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Family.
(d) Men.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. What helped hooks to survive the trauma of lovelessness?
(a) Movies.
(b) The experience of genuine love.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) Books.

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

14. When, according to hooks, do people learn how to lie?
(a) During childhood.
(b) During high school.
(c) During college.
(d) During adulthood.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What university did hooks teach at?

3. What happened when hooks stopped mourning her past?

4. Who does hooks think is cynical about love?

5. What does hooks identify as the original school of love?

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