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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Erich Fromm?
(a) An actor.
(b) A social psychologist.
(c) A singer.
(d) A chef.

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

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

6. What has Marianne Williamson criticized in her writing?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Society's cynicism about sharing resources.

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

8. 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.

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

10. What, according to hooks, happens when people choose to love?
(a) They make more friends.
(b) They act against fear.
(c) The make families.
(d) They find romance.

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

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

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

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

15. What is one way hooks identifies to express love?
(a) By being nice to people.
(b) By sharing resources.
(c) By giving money to the homeless.
(d) By making food for others.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does hooks see love?

2. What kind of family does hooks write that society values?

3. What does hooks say people need to confront head on?

4. What does hooks not believe in?

5. What does commitment to spiritual life require, as defined by hooks?

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