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

2. What does hooks say is healing to the spirit?
(a) Religion.
(b) Receiving.
(c) Giving.
(d) Eating.

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

4. What does commitment to spiritual life require, as defined by hooks?
(a) A commitment to the church.
(b) A commitment to God.
(c) A willingness to unite the way one thinks and acts.
(d) A willingness to find peace.

5. What is easier to fulfill than emotional needs, according to hooks?
(a) Sexual desires.
(b) Nothing is easier to fulfill than emotional needs.
(c) Career goals.
(d) Material desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks insist does not end when one begins to love?

2. What does hooks say happens when people practice love?

3. What can people achieve when their passions give them courage to face reality?

4. What was hooks unable to receive from her partner of 15 years?

5. How did Toni Morrison identify love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did hooks's partner of 15 years want from her?

2. Who is Marianne Williamson?

3. In what ways does loving practice involve decision-making, according to hooks?

4. What does hooks say is largely absent from modern writing?

5. Why does hooks like living in small towns?

6. What does hooks say is the best way to resist greed?

7. What does hooks say of power in relationships?

8. Why is listening an important part of communicating?

9. What does awareness do for one's capacity to love, according to hooks?

10. Why is hooks distrustful of mass media?

(see the answer keys)

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