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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 is one of the reasons hooks points out that many people will not know love?

2. What is a simple way for children to learn discipline?

3. Who is M. Scott Peck?

4. Why does hooks fear for young people?

5. What does one need to do to be well in one's soul?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does hooks say cannot coexist with love?

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

3. Why does hooks say it is easier for men to lie?

4. What does hooks believe all children are entitled to?

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

6. What do children learn about lying, according to hooks?

7. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

8. What hangs on hooks's kitchen wall?

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

10. What do children associate with love, according to hooks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore hooks's concept of lovelessness. What does it mean to be loveless and continue to perpetuate lovelessness? 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 healing. What does healing (from trauma, from the past, from lovelessness, etc.) entail, and why is it necessary in the practice of love? Use examples from the text for support.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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