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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. You need to change your _________ conditions in order to improve the quality of your life, according to the author.
(a) Home.
(b) External.
(c) Work.
(d) Internal.

2. What is NOT one of the areas that the author cites has having altered the course of during the book?
(a) Geriatric care.
(b) Juvenile rehabilitation.
(c) Government policy.
(d) Occupational therapy.

3. One must also change one's ___________ to external conditions in order to change the course of one's life.
(a) Reactions.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Purposes.
(d) Truth.

4. Another condition of flow is how the __________ affects a person's goals and desires for their lives.
(a) Household.
(b) Culture.
(c) Laws.
(d) School.

5. The consciousness allows a person to invent ______________, create lies, and to envision works of art.
(a) Decisions.
(b) Information.
(c) People.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author believes that flow may have a ___________ component, coming from the parents to the children.

2. What is the name that the author has coined for people who are internally driven to find flow in their lives?

3. While having a/an ____________________ is possible at any given moment, flow tends to occur more in a structured atmosphere.

4. Once one can process the conflicting behaviors and information, then things can return to __________ for the person.

5. Contrary to popular belief, consciousness is not a ___________ thing, according to the author's findings.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the five key factors that can assure that a child may have an optimum experience in his life?

2. Why does the author not think it is possible to expand the consciousness indefinitely?

3. Why does the author believe that we are limited in experiencing complete joy?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What are some of the problems an autoletic person can encounter in trying to achieve flow?

9. What does the author think would happen if a person did not have a consciousness?

10. What is the question that the book says psychologists and philosophers are no closer to finding the answer to?

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