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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. Why does hooks fear for young people?

2. What can love not coexist with?

3. What negates love, according to hooks?

4. What does hooks say is at the heart of justice?

5. What does hooks insist people not born knowing how to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do people turn to see expressions of love?

2. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

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

4. What does hooks say cannot coexist with love?

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

6. Why does hooks describe her family as dysfunctional?

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

8. Why did an artist give hooks snapshots of his art?

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

10. How does hooks define love?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the way hooks draws connections between love and community. What makes a community, and why is it important that everyone strive to be a part of one? In what ways is community essential to one's ability to 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 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.

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