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

2. What was hooks's partner of 15 years unable to receive from her?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Sex.
(c) The love he had from his mother growing up.
(d) Money.

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

4. What do pained people often believe will save them, according to hooks?
(a) God.
(b) Education.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Romantic relationships.

5. How did hooks manage to thrive growing up despite her dysfunctional family?
(a) With the help of therapists.
(b) With the help of her pets.
(c) With the help of her extended family.
(d) With the help of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does hooks say people need to confront head on?

2. What does hooks write that addicts want?

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

4. What does hooks long for?

5. What does hook write that the cultural emphasis on consumption deflect attention from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do people tend to give into consumer culture?

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

4. Who is Marianne Williamson?

5. How does fear keep people from practicing love?

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

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

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

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

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

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