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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. Who does hooks think is cynical about love?
(a) Young people.
(b) Cats.
(c) Old people.
(d) Babies.

2. Why did hooks want to write this book?
(a) To discourage people from love.
(b) To call for a return to love.
(c) To warn people about romantic love.
(d) For fun.

3. What does hooks think enables people to find paradise?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Love.
(d) Joy.

4. What did hooks realize when she came close to death?
(a) That she wanted to travel more.
(b) That she was terminally ill.
(c) That she had not known love yet.
(d) That she needed to write one more book.

5. What, according to hooks, is privacy often confused with?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Being rude.
(c) Secracy.
(d) Lying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hangs on hooks's kitchen wall?

2. What does consumer culture encourage?

3. What do dictionary definitions of love tend to emphasize?

4. What is a result of being unable to connect with others, according to hooks?

5. Who does hooks particularly admire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did hooks first have to do in order to recover from a past of lovelessness?

2. What are young boys taught about emotion?

3. What do children associate with love, according to hooks?

4. What university did hooks teach at briefly?

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

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

7. What hangs on hooks's kitchen wall?

8. What confused hooks about her childhood?

9. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

10. What do children learn about lying, according to hooks?

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