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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does hooks write is an important part of communication?
(a) Writing.
(b) Active listening.
(c) Talking.
(d) Expressing opinions.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who does hooks say do not do the work that love demands, more often than not?
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Old people.

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

9. What do a lot of people experience, as addressed in Chapter 7?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Romance.
(d) Betrayal.

10. What is the heartbeat of genuine love, according to hooks?
(a) Community.
(b) Strength.
(c) Trust.
(d) Power.

11. What does faith entail, according to hooks?
(a) Courage.
(b) God.
(c) Determination.
(d) Friendship.

12. What does hooks believe people should try to live by?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A moral code.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A love ethic.

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

14. What rapper did hooks interview?
(a) Cardi B.
(b) Lil' Kim.
(c) Snoop Dogg.
(d) Kanye West.

15. What does hooks say of genuine love?
(a) It is hard to find.
(b) It is a powerful revolution.
(c) It not unachievable.
(d) It is not for everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hook write that the cultural emphasis on consumption deflect attention from?

2. What does mass media tend to dwell on, according to hooks?

3. What does hooks say people must surrender to know love?

4. What does hooks say is everything?

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

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