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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to hooks, keeping secrets usually about?

2. Who is M. Scott Peck?

3. When do people first learn about love?

4. Why did hooks want to write this book?

5. What term does hooks use to describe her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did hooks first have to do in order to recover from a past of lovelessness?

2. What did hooks realize about love as a child?

3. Why is hooks worried about young people?

4. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

5. What is self-assertiveness?

6. What about the possibilty of love scared hooks when she was younger?

7. Where does hooks say we first learn about love?

8. Why does hooks say love cannot exist among lies and secracy?

9. Why does hooks encourage people to commit to truth telling?

10. What does hooks say cannot coexist with love?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the connection between love and capitalism. What is capitalism, and what are some of the major negative effects capitalism has on society's understanding of love? What does living in a capitalist society do (or not do) for our collective love practice? Use examples from the text for support.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the way hooks draws connections between love and loss. What are the different ways one can experience loss? In what ways does loss teach us about love? Use examples from the text for support.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore love and patriarchy. How has the power of patriarchy impacted cultural views -- held or perpetuated by both men and women -- about love? What are the general understandings of love in a patriarchal society, and why are they counterproductive? Use examples from the text for support.

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