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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does hooks say people have to do in order to know genuine love?
(a) Have been loved before.
(b) Invest their savings.
(c) Invest their time and commitment.
(d) Have loved someone else before.

12. What does hooks long for?
(a) A change in the way mass media portrays love.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) Family.

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

14. 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.

15. What does hooks believe about God?
(a) He is real.
(b) He is not love.
(c) He is love.
(d) He is not real.