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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first step, identified by hooks, of practicing love?
(a) Letting someone love you.
(b) Choosing to be honest.
(c) Loving someone else.
(d) Getting married.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does hooks write that addicts want?
(a) Family.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) A release from pain.

9. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say about love?
(a) It is useless.
(b) That it is a spiritual force that unifies all life.
(c) It is hard to give.
(d) It is hard to receive.

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

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

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

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

14. What does greed motivate people to do, according to hooks?
(a) To be mean.
(b) To make friends.
(c) To be selfish.
(d) To live dangerously.

15. What does mass media tend to dwell on, according to hooks?
(a) Romance.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) Violence and domination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Erich Fromm?

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

3. What does hooks not believe in?

4. What place does hooks write that love allow people to enter?

5. Where does hooks write is a good place to build community?

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