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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does hooks say happens when people practice love?
(a) They start new lives.
(b) They make new friends.
(c) They stop being mean.
(d) They want to give more.

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

3. What does hooks write that giving in relationships entail?
(a) Being selfless.
(b) Recognizing when another person needs attention.
(c) Being sensitive.
(d) Realizing when someone wants to be alone.

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

5. What does hooks identify as an ideal place to learn the art of loving?
(a) In a family.
(b) College.
(c) Graduate school.
(d) In community.

6. How does hooks see love?
(a) As a noun.
(b) As an action.
(c) As a feeling.
(d) As a fantasy.

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

8. Hooks writes that people can successfully utilize love how?
(a) By being nice to people.
(b) By cultivating awareness.
(c) By making friends.
(d) By finding God.

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

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

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

12. How does giving teach people?
(a) Giving teaches people to be nice.
(b) Giving teaches people to be selfless.
(c) Giving teaches people to be selfish.
(d) Giving teaches people how to receive.

13. What does hooks say is largely absent from modern writing about love?
(a) The politicization of love.
(b) The importance of love.
(c) The struggles of love.
(d) The joys of love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks identify as a weapon against greed?

2. What does hooks long for?

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

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

5. What does hooks think everyone needs to be in touch with?

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