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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 healing to the spirit?
(a) Eating.
(b) Receiving.
(c) Giving.
(d) Religion.

2. How does giving teach people?
(a) Giving teaches people to be nice.
(b) Giving teaches people to be selfish.
(c) Giving teaches people how to receive.
(d) Giving teaches people to be selfless.

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

4. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?
(a) Claude McKay.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Aurdre Lorde.
(d) Toni Morrison.

5. How does hooks see love?
(a) As a fantasy.
(b) As an action.
(c) As a noun.
(d) As a feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks identify as an ideal place to learn the art of loving?

2. What does hooks say gives people strength to live?

3. What does hooks write is an important part of communication?

4. What does hooks write that addicts want?

5. What does consumerism promote?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does hooks like living in small towns?

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

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

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

6. What does hooks say of power in relationships?

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

8. What does hooks say true love is all about?

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

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

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