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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 place does hooks write that love allow people to enter?

2. What is a primary way to end oppression and domination?

3. What does hooks identify as an ideal place to learn the art of loving?

4. How does hooks see love?

5. What rapper did hooks interview?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does awareness do for one's capacity to love, according to hooks?

6. Why is listening an important part of communicating?

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

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

9. What does hooks think about the notion that people 'fall in love'?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the way hooks draws connections between love and honesty. Why is honesty an vital component of love practice? Use examples from the text for support.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore hooks's concept of "love ethic." What is a love ethic, and why does hooks advocate for living by a love ethic? Use examples from the text for support.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore hooks's analysis of death, and particularly the way death is regarded -- or "worshiped" as she states -- in our culture. What connections does hooks draw between love and death, and what does she want her readers to understand about death and our collective fear of it? Use examples from the text for support.

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