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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. Where is a good place to learn the power of community, according to hooks?
(a) Work.
(b) The extended family.
(c) College.
(d) Church.

2. Why is listening important for loving practice, according to hooks?
(a) Listening makes you a good person.
(b) People in romantic relationships needs to listen to each other.
(c) Listening makes you lovable.
(d) One cannot communicate properly if one does not know how to listen.

3. What does hooks say people need to confront head on?
(a) Their past.
(b) Their current struggles.
(c) The pain of lovelessness.
(d) Their fears.

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

5. What does hooks think everyone needs to be in touch with?
(a) Their families.
(b) Their spiritual needs.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks not believe in?

2. What does hooks say of spiritual practice?

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

4. What does hooks admit is hard to do?

5. What does hooks see spiritual teachings as a guide for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does hooks say of power in relationships?

2. Why is listening an important part of communicating?

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

4. How do men view love in a patriarchal culture?

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

6. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say of the power of love?

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

8. Who is Marianne Williamson?

9. How does fear keep people from practicing love?

10. Why does hooks like living in small towns?

(see the answer keys)

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