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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is a good place to learn the power of community, according to hooks?
(a) The extended family.
(b) Work.
(c) College.
(d) Church.

3. What was hooks's partner of 15 years unable to receive from her?
(a) Money.
(b) The love he had from his mother growing up.
(c) Sex.
(d) Marriage.

4. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Aurdre Lorde.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Claude McKay.

5. What was hooks confident about in her twenties?
(a) That she would get a high-paying job.
(b) That she would find love.
(c) That she would get into grad school.
(d) That she knew what love was about.

6. What does hooks say people have to do in order to know genuine love?
(a) Have loved someone else before.
(b) Have been loved before.
(c) Invest their time and commitment.
(d) Invest their savings.

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

8. What does hooks think everyone needs to be in touch with?
(a) Their emotions.
(b) Their families.
(c) Their spiritual needs.
(d) Their friends.

9. What can people achieve when their passions give them courage to face reality?
(a) "Perfect love."
(b) Paradise.
(c) Success.
(d) Growth.

10. What does a lot of self-help literature normalize?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Lying.

11. What are central causes of depression and despair?
(a) Friendlessness.
(b) Being a bad person.
(c) Isolation and loneliness.
(d) Lovelessness.

12. What does hooks believe about God?
(a) He is love.
(b) He is not love.
(c) He is real.
(d) He is not real.

13. What does hooks not believe in?
(a) That people can just "fall in love."
(b) Magic.
(c) God.
(d) That people can find love.

14. What does hooks say is everything?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

15. How did Toni Morrison identify love?
(a) As destructive.
(b) As transformative.
(c) As joyful.
(d) As damaging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks say of genuine love?

2. What does hooks identify as a breeding ground for overconsumption?

3. Why is listening important for loving practice, according to hooks?

4. What does spiritual awakening call people to do, according to hooks?

5. What is the heartbeat of genuine love, according to hooks?

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