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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 Ms. Taylor want to match each student to?
(a) A perfect song.
(b) A book.
(c) A lover.
(d) A life goal.

2. Why did the delinquents in John Bowlby's study think they were abandoned?
(a) Their parents were poor.
(b) They were not good enough.
(c) They were sickly.
(d) Their parents died.

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

4. By the end of Chapter 6, Ms. Taylor has taught Harold to do what?
(a) Learn.
(b) Experience life.
(c) Read.
(d) Let go.

5. According to Brooks in the Introduction what do Harold and Erica inherit?
(a) Their intellects.
(b) Their capacity to love.
(c) Their self-images.
(d) Their politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 5, to what does Brooks compare Harold's writing on his worksheet?

2. What subject did John Bowlby focus on in addition to children?

3. What is the story Julia tells Harold in Chapter 5 about?

4. What does Brooks say his day job is in the introduction?

5. In Chapter 1, Damasio determines that people's unconscious selves draw on what to function?

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