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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the specialization of Howard Gardner?
(a) Marriage counseling.
(b) Prison psychology.
(c) Developmental psychology.
(d) Neuroscience.

2. What does “EI” stand for?
(a) Enlightened Intelligence.
(b) Evolved Intelligence.
(c) Emotional Intelligence.
(d) Euphoric Intelligence.

3. Where did Daniel Goleman earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Kansas.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Washington.
(d) Emory University.

4. Howard Gardner works at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Education.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Claremont Graduate University.
(d) Emory University.

5. Charisma combines four separate interpersonal intelligence components. What is the first?
(a) Social analysis.
(b) Negotiating solutions.
(c) Personal connection.
(d) Organizing groups.

6. What release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Adrenaline.
(c) Carbon Dioxide.
(d) Carbohydrate.

7. At what age can children separate their own feelings from the feelings of others, according to the author in Part Two: Chapter 7, “The Roots of Empathy”?
(a) 7.
(b) 2 ½.
(c) 4.
(d) 5 ½.

8. Walter Mischel works as a psychologist at what university?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) The University of Wisconsin.

9. What type of specialist is Dr. Antonio Damasio?
(a) Arborist.
(b) Neurologist.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Physicist.

10. Joseph LeDoux found that sensory signals from the eye or ear go to the thalamus and then to what?
(a) The left pre-frontal lobe.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The amygdala.

11. 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.

12. Daniel Goleman currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at what university?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) New York University.
(c) The University of Alabama.
(d) Rutgers University.

13. An example of the social skills of charisma is exemplified by a scenario with an elderly Japanese man calming who on a bus in Part Two: Chapter 8, “The Social Arts”?
(a) A hysterical mother.
(b) A belligerent drunk.
(c) A violent felon.
(d) A rude teenager.

14. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the first category?
(a) Motivating one's self.
(b) Managing emotions.
(c) Knowing one’s emotions.
(d) Handling relationships.

15. What is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent and indifference to the world around them?
(a) Dysphoria.
(b) Bipolar disorder
(c) Depression.
(d) Narcissistic personality disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to EI as which of the following?

2. What kind of specialist is Joseph LeDoux?

3. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

4. Who studied married couples and found that they had the most accurate empathy when their physical responses were in synch?

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

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