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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. How did Toni Morrison identify love?
(a) As transformative.
(b) As joyful.
(c) As destructive.
(d) As damaging.

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

3. What does hooks identify as a weapon against greed?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

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

5. What does hooks identify as a breeding ground for overconsumption?
(a) Being obsessed with money.
(b) Friendlessness.
(c) Emotional and spiritual lack.
(d) Being a bad person.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does hooks write is a good place to build community?

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

4. What does hooks say of spiritual practice?

5. What does a lot of self-help literature normalize?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do people need to invest in to know genuine love, according to hooks?

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

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

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

6. Who is Marianne Williamson?

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

8. What does hooks say is the value of loving friendships?

9. What does hooks say of power in relationships?

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

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