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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) Talking.
(b) Active listening.
(c) Writing.
(d) Expressing opinions.

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

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

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

5. What does hooks think society fears most?
(a) Love.
(b) Failure.
(c) God.
(d) Truth.

6. What does hooks say about power in relationships?
(a) Love and power cannot coexist.
(b) There is always a power struggle.
(c) Love will not prevail if one person wants to maintain control.
(d) Good relationships are not concerned about power.

7. When can an awakening to love happen, according to hooks?
(a) When people seek it out.
(b) When people let go of obsession with power and domination.
(c) When people try harder.
(d) When people be nice to each other.

8. How did hooks manage to thrive growing up despite her dysfunctional family?
(a) With the help of religion.
(b) With the help of her pets.
(c) With the help of her extended family.
(d) With the help of therapists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Stength to Love?

2. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?

3. What does hooks say of genuine love?

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

5. What does hooks say is healing to the spirit?

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