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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. Which of these experience and control their emotions to that they remain on an even keel?
(a) The accepting.
(b) The engulfed.
(c) The justified.
(d) The self-aware.

2. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?
(a) Causing respiration to decrease.
(b) Sending blood to the major muscles.
(c) Decreasing brain activity.
(d) Increasing awareness.

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?
(a) The intensity of that emotion.
(b) The length of the distressing emotion.
(c) When to have no emotion at all.
(d) The switch to a different emotion.

4. Dr. Antonio Damasio works at the College of Medicine at what university?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Pennsylvania State University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) The University of Iowa.

5. Dr. Antonio Damasio studied patients who suffered damage to what?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) Their prefrontal-amygdala circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?

2. Venting anger generally does what, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves”?

3. The left and right pre-frontal lobes of the brain’s cortex balance the emotional responses of what?

4. Alexithymics may suffer from a disconnection between the limbic system and what?

5. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the first?

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