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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stopped happening to hooks when she was a child?
(a) She stopped going to school.
(b) She stopped playing with friends.
(c) She stopped receving adequate love.
(d) She stopped crying.

2. What does patriarchal masculinity ask of men?
(a) To see themselves as above women.
(b) To see themselves as leaders.
(c) To see themselves as inferior to women.
(d) To see themselves as followers.

3. What did hooks spend much of her adult life trying to deny?
(a) That she was unloved.
(b) That she was unfulfilled.
(c) That she was a bad person.
(d) That bad things had happened in her past.

4. How does hooks believe adults should treat children?
(a) With little love.
(b) With reckless abandon.
(c) With tough love.
(d) With respect and dignity.

5. What, according to hooks, keeping secrets usually about?
(a) Power.
(b) Romance.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was hooks personally given by an artist?

2. Who does hooks think is cynical about love?

3. What are boys often taught at a young age?

4. What does hooks say cannot exist without love?

5. What is one tactic men use to gain power in relationships?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does consumer culture encourage lies?

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

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

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

6. What hangs on hooks's kitchen wall?

7. What does hooks say cannot coexist with love?

8. Why is hooks worried about young people?

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

10. Why does hooks describe her family as dysfunctional?

(see the answer keys)

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