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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a primary way to end oppression and domination?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Love.

2. What is the second step, identified by hooks, on love's path?
(a) Letting someone love you.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Communication.
(d) Loving someone else.

3. What does hooks say is healing to the spirit?
(a) Receiving.
(b) Religion.
(c) Giving.
(d) Eating.

4. What does hooks say people must surrender to know love?
(a) Their attachment to sexist thinking.
(b) Moral values.
(c) Bad habits.
(d) Worldly possessions.

5. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say about love?
(a) It is hard to give.
(b) That it is a spiritual force that unifies all life.
(c) It is hard to receive.
(d) It is useless.

6. What is the primary vehicle for promotion of greed, as identified by hooks?
(a) Music.
(b) Movies.
(c) People.
(d) Mass media.

7. What does hooks say people need to confront head on?
(a) Their fears.
(b) Their current struggles.
(c) The pain of lovelessness.
(d) Their past.

8. What does hooks write that addicts want?
(a) A release from pain.
(b) Family.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Alcohol.

9. What does hooks say of spiritual practice?
(a) It does not need to be affliated with organized religion.
(b) It is not for everyone.
(c) It is nice to try.
(d) It has to be affiliated with organized religion.

10. Who can be swept away by power and privilege, according to hooks?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Anyone.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

11. Why is listening important for loving practice, according to hooks?
(a) One cannot communicate properly if one does not know how to listen.
(b) Listening makes you a good person.
(c) Listening makes you lovable.
(d) People in romantic relationships needs to listen to each other.

12. What does fear keep people from doing, according to hooks?
(a) Trusting in love.
(b) Finding romance.
(c) Living with joy.
(d) Having children.

13. What does hooks admit is hard to do?
(a) Make a family.
(b) Be nice to people.
(c) Find a job.
(d) Resist the temptations of greed.

14. What does hooks say gives people strength to live?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) God.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Kindness.

15. What is the first step, identified by hooks, of practicing love?
(a) Letting someone love you.
(b) Loving someone else.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Choosing to be honest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do a lot of people experience, as addressed in Chapter 7?

2. Who is Erich Fromm?

3. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?

4. What does hooks refer to when she speaks of the divine spirit?

5. What is a false notion of love, according to hooks?

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