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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. The author believes that flow may have a ___________ component, coming from the parents to the children.
(a) Household.
(b) Genetic.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Spiritual.

2. The concept of the Flow is a state in which one is so immersed in something that nothing else _________________.
(a) Can measure up.
(b) Seems to matter.
(c) Will make them smile.
(d) Will ever be the same.

3. _________ increases as people age, according to the book, so people become more willing to ask what their life is about.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Drama.
(d) Discontent.

4. What does the author seem to believe is not actually something that exists in the world?
(a) God.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) ESP.
(d) Religious zealotry.

5. When events or information clashes with a person's sense of self, then _____________ entropy can occur.
(a) Soul.
(b) Psychic.
(c) Connnection.
(d) Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. You need to change your _________ conditions in order to improve the quality of your life, according to the author.

2. A rock climber's _________ can change when they feel an unusual rock as they are ascending a mountain.

3. Another condition of flow is how the __________ affects a person's goals and desires for their lives.

4. An event that conflicts with the self can wreak havoc until the ________ accepts or rejects appropriate behaviors and attitudes.

5. The nature of our nervous system requires the mind to take each event as it is happening and put it into __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. When does psychic entropy occur, according to the author when speaking of the presence of self?

2. What is the relationship between culture and the way a person can experience flow in his life?

3. What is consciousness, according to the author, causing it to seem less like a mystical thing?

4. What might happen if a person were to burst into an office demanding answers as to why they got passed over for a promotion?

5. How does the author say that happiness can be achieved, as he does not believe it is an unattainable goal?

6. What are two of the factors that can affect happiness which are completely out of the control of the person?

7. What does Csikszentmihalyi mean when he talks about the idea of an autotelic person?

8. What is the example that is given in this section of the book to show a situation in which a person can apply the answer to #17?

9. What is a person able to do as a result of having a consciousness, according to the author?

10. What can the self give insight into, according to Csikszentmihalyi in this section of the book?

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