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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does hooks identify as the original school of love?
(a) School.
(b) College.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Family.

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

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

4. What was hooks personally given by an artist?
(a) Money.
(b) Snapshots of his art.
(c) Keys to his studio.
(d) Free food.

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

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

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

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

9. What is one myth about lovelessness?
(a) It only exists among the poor.
(b) It only exists in America.
(c) It only exists among the rich.
(d) It is real.

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

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

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

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

14. What, according to hooks, keeping secrets usually about?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Romance.
(d) Friendship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does hooks fear for young people?

2. What does hooks say needs to happen to create a loving culture?

3. Why did hooks live through most of her life broken-hearted?

4. Who does hooks particularly admire?

5. Who in hooks' life have always lied?

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