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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does consumer culture trick people into thinking?
(a) That they are bad people.
(b) That they need more.
(c) That they need less.
(d) That they have enough.

2. Why does hooks fear for young people?
(a) Because they are too modern.
(b) Because they are cynical about love.
(c) Because they are reckless.
(d) Because they hate honesty.

3. What is one of the reasons hooks points out that many people will not know love?
(a) Fear of love.
(b) Fear of truth.
(c) Lack of people in the world to love.
(d) Widespread cultural acceptance of lying.

4. What is a simple way for children to learn discipline?
(a) Learning to be responsible.
(b) Learning to talk.
(c) Learning to read.
(d) Learning to write.

5. What helped hooks to survive the trauma of lovelessness?
(a) The experience of genuine love.
(b) Books.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) Movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What negates love, according to hooks?

2. What university did hooks teach at?

3. What can love not coexist with?

4. What was hooks personally given by an artist?

5. When, according to hooks, do people learn how to lie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does hooks say we first learn about love?

2. Where do people turn to see expressions of love?

3. What are young boys taught about emotion?

4. What is self-assertiveness?

5. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

6. What does hooks say cannot coexist with love?

7. What was hooks able to do once she stopped mourning her past?

8. What confused hooks about her childhood?

9. Why does hooks say it is easier for men to lie?

10. What does hooks believe all children are entitled to?

(see the answer keys)

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