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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 a false notion of love, according to hooks?
(a) That love provides a constant state of bliss.
(b) That love provides happiness.
(c) That love is real.
(d) That love is for everyone.

2. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say about love?
(a) It is hard to receive.
(b) It is useless.
(c) That it is a spiritual force that unifies all life.
(d) It is hard to give.

3. What does hooks say happens when people practice love?
(a) They want to give more.
(b) They start new lives.
(c) They stop being mean.
(d) They make new friends.

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

5. What does hooks admit is hard to do?
(a) Be nice to people.
(b) Make a family.
(c) Resist the temptations of greed.
(d) Find a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can be swept away by power and privilege, according to hooks?

2. What, according to hooks, does embracing love entail?

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

4. What does hooks write that addicts want?

5. What do a lot of people experience, as addressed in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does cynicism lead young people to believe about love?

2. What does giving do for one's loving practice?

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

4. What does hooks say of power in relationships?

5. What are the effects of isolation and loneliness according to hooks?

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

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

8. Why is hooks distrustful of mass media?

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

10. What does hooks say of spiritual life?

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