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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does hooks say is healing to the spirit?
(a) Eating.
(b) Receiving.
(c) Giving.
(d) Religion.

4. What does hooks say gives people strength to live?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) God.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Kindness.

5. What place does hooks write that love allow people to enter?
(a) College.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Canada.
(d) Heaven.

6. What do pained people often believe will save them, according to hooks?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Romantic relationships.
(c) God.
(d) Education.

7. 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) Marriage.
(d) Sex.

8. What is a false notion of love, according to hooks?
(a) That love provides happiness.
(b) That love provides a constant state of bliss.
(c) That love is for everyone.
(d) That love is real.

9. What kind of family does hooks write that society values?
(a) Chosen family.
(b) The nuclear family.
(c) Extended family.
(d) Work family.

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

11. What is a primary way to end oppression and domination?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Love.

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

13. 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 loved someone else before.
(d) Have been loved before.

14. Why is listening important for loving practice, according to hooks?
(a) People in romantic relationships needs to listen to each other.
(b) One cannot communicate properly if one does not know how to listen.
(c) Listening makes you lovable.
(d) Listening makes you a good person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks believe about God?

2. What does hooks not believe in?

3. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say about love?

4. What does hooks say happens when people practice love?

5. What does a lot of self-help literature normalize?

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