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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 the second step, identified by hooks, on love's path?

2. What does a lot of self-help literature normalize?

3. What does hooks see spiritual teachings as a guide for?

4. How does giving teach people?

5. What can people achieve when their passions give them courage to face reality?

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. What do people need to invest in to know genuine love, according to hooks?

4. Why does hooks like living in small towns?

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

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

7. How do men view love in a patriarchal culture?

8. How does fear keep people from practicing love?

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

10. What does hooks say is the value of loving friendships?

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 "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 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 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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