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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brooks say his day job is in the introduction?
(a) Writing about politics.
(b) Giving paid lectures.
(c) Speaking on television.
(d) Teaching.

2. What does Brooks say both Julia and Rob worry about doing when they meet?
(a) Coming off as cocky.
(b) Coming off as desperate.
(c) Coming off as dumb.
(d) Coming off as aloof.

3. In Chapter 2, Brooks points out that the female orgasm is what type of process?
(a) A liminoid process.
(b) A mental process.
(c) A physical process.
(d) A moral process.

4. Whose method does Brooks acknowledge he is borrowing in the introduction?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Norman Mailer's.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell's.
(d) Rousseau's.

5. In Chapter 3, Julia calls Harold half cupid, half what?
(a) Black hole.
(b) Professor.
(c) Storm trooper.
(d) Lord Fontleroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of Chapter 6, Ms. Taylor has taught Harold to do what?

2. In Chapter 5, Brooks states that Harold left to his own devices does not seem what?

3. What is laughter's major purpose, according to Brooks?

4. As he grows in Chapter 4, Harold develops the ability to always quote an appropriate what?

5. Which of the following is not a photo that Antonio Damasio shows Elliot to elicit an emotional reaction?

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