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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 has Marianne Williamson criticized in her writing?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Society's cynicism about sharing resources.

2. What does fear keep people from doing, according to hooks?
(a) Trusting in love.
(b) Having children.
(c) Living with joy.
(d) Finding romance.

3. What does commitment to spiritual life require, as defined by hooks?
(a) A willingness to unite the way one thinks and acts.
(b) A commitment to the church.
(c) A commitment to God.
(d) A willingness to find peace.

4. What does hooks write that giving in relationships entail?
(a) Recognizing when another person needs attention.
(b) Being selfless.
(c) Realizing when someone wants to be alone.
(d) Being sensitive.

5. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Aurdre Lorde.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Claude McKay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say about love?

2. Who does hooks say do not do the work that love demands, more often than not?

3. What does hooks believe about God?

4. What does hooks say about power in relationships?

5. Where is a good place to learn the power of community, according to hooks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does hooks say of spiritual life?

3. What did Lil' Kim tell hooks about her thoughts on love?

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

5. How does fear keep people from practicing love?

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

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

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

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

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

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