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

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

3. How are men inclined to see love in a patriarchal culture, according to hooks?
(a) As something they should give and receive.
(b) As something they should give and not receive.
(c) As something they should receive without giving back.
(d) As something unimportant.

4. What does greed motivate people to do, according to hooks?
(a) To be selfish.
(b) To live dangerously.
(c) To be mean.
(d) To make friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Erich Fromm?

2. What does hooks write that giving in relationships entail?

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

4. What kind of family does hooks write that society values?

5. What is a primary way to end oppression and domination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lil' Kim tell hooks about her thoughts on love?

2. How does fear keep people from practicing love?

3. What does Toni Morrison say of romantic love in The Bluest Eye?

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

5. What does it mean to live by a love ethic?

6. Why is hooks distrustful of mass media?

7. What does hooks say everyone needs to be in touch with in order to practice loving?

8. What does hooks say of spiritual life?

9. What does hooks think about the notion that people 'fall in love'?

10. What did hooks unconsciously want from her partner of 15 years?

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