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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) Fear of truth.
(d) Lack of people in the world to love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does hooks insist people not born knowing how to do?
(a) Eat.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Lie.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks write that most children associate with love?

2. What are the foundations of love, according to hooks?

3. How does hooks think of love?

4. What is afforded to men more than women?

5. What helped hooks to survive the trauma of lovelessness?

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