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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Dr. Charles Nemeroff earn his Ph.D. in neurobiology?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) Yale University.
(c) The University of New Hampshire.
(d) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2. Engineers at Bell Labs were studied to see how well teams of 5 to how many could work together?
(a) 75.
(b) 230.
(c) 20.
(d) 150.

3. Emotional intelligence can be called what, according to the author in Part Five: Chapter 16, “Schooling the Emotions”?
(a) Connectedness.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Character.
(d) Rationality.

4. Neuroscientists Thorsten Wiesel and David Hubel proved that the neurons unused in the brain will do what?
(a) Absorb their neighbors.
(b) Shrink in size.
(c) Establish new connections.
(d) Lose their connections.

5. Dr. David Spiegel studied women in the advanced stage of what disease?
(a) Glaucoma.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Alzheimer's.

6. Corporate consultant and psychoanalyst Harry Levinson advises managers on how to coach employees. What is the second piece of advice he gives?
(a) Be present.
(b) Be specific.
(c) Offer a solution.
(d) Be sympathetic.

7. According to studies by Jerome Kagan, the difference between timid and bold temperamental types is how easily what is stimulated?
(a) The neocortex.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The hippocampus.

8. According to the author in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning ,” what can help lessen the length and intensity of emotional responses or emotional hijackings, reshaping the brain to stand down from the constant state of emergency?
(a) Fear conditioning.
(b) Objective thinking.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Working memory.

9. Children who are disciplined irregularly or based on the mood of the parents learn what that can follow them through life, according to the author in Part Four: Chapter 12, “The Family Crucible”?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Distress.
(d) Empathy.

10. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the third stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?
(a) Understanding the triggers and responses.
(b) Mourning the trauma.
(c) Retelling and reconstructing the trauma in a safe environment.
(d) Acting out the trauma in a real world environment.

11. What does “SEL” stand for?
(a) Short-term Experimental License.
(b) Socially Endangered Limitations.
(c) Social and Emotional Learning.
(d) Specific Empathy Library.

12. Marriages that began in 1990 suffered a divorce rate of what percentage, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) 89%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 67%.

13. Aside from social changes, the glue that holds a couple together is what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 9, “Intimate Enemies”?
(a) Christian beliefs.
(b) Inherited traits.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Money.

14. In the doctor patient relationship, the doctor is trained to treat disease and injury but not what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 11, “Mind and Medicine”?
(a) The needs of the family.
(b) The emotional needs of the patient.
(c) The religious needs of the patient.
(d) The financial needs of the patient.

15. According to the author in Part Five: Chapter 15, “The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy,” emotional illiterates tend toward what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Distress.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the sufferers of PTSD experience a numbing of pain thanks to a higher secretion of what?

2. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the second described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

3. Jerome Kagan found four temperamental types that have different patterns of brain activity. What is the third described in Part Four: Chapter 14, “Temperament Is Not Destiny”?

4. In the study at Bell Labs, the star performers were identified as the ones who know the value of building what, according to the author in Part Three: Chapter 10, “Managing with Heart”?

5. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman discovered three vital stages for retraining the brain of people suffering from PTSD. What is the first stage discussed in Part Four: Chapter 13, “Trauma and Emotional Relearning”?

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