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

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

3. What kind of family does hooks find valuable?
(a) Extended family.
(b) Chosen family.
(c) Work family.
(d) The nuclear family.

4. How does giving teach people?
(a) Giving teaches people to be nice.
(b) Giving teaches people to be selfless.
(c) Giving teaches people how to receive.
(d) Giving teaches people to be selfish.

5. Who wrote Stength to Love?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Audre Lorde.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. What, according to hooks, does embracing love entail?
(a) Making friends.
(b) Utilizing all dimensions of love.
(c) Finding God.
(d) Reuniting with family.

7. What does hooks refer to when she speaks of the divine spirit?
(a) Forces beyond human control that provide guidance.
(b) God.
(c) Love.
(d) Angels.

8. What does hooks say is largely absent from modern writing about love?
(a) The joys of love.
(b) The importance of love.
(c) The politicization of love.
(d) The struggles of love.

9. What, according to hooks, becomes acceptable in a culture of greed?
(a) Dehumanization.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Bad habits.
(d) Selfishness.

10. Hooks writes that people can successfully utilize love how?
(a) By being nice to people.
(b) By finding God.
(c) By making friends.
(d) By cultivating awareness.

11. What was hooks unable to receive from her partner of 15 years?
(a) Money.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The love she needed from her family.
(d) Sex.

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

13. What is the primary way hooks offers to resist greed?
(a) By living simply.
(b) Through prayer.
(c) With the help of friends.
(d) With the help of family.

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

15. What does a spiritual life honor, according to hooks?
(a) God.
(b) The Church.
(c) Principles of interconnectedness.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks say of spiritual practice?

2. How did hooks manage to thrive growing up despite her dysfunctional family?

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

4. What does hooks insist does not end when one begins to love?

5. What does greed motivate people to do, according to hooks?

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