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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Intercom's original line of business?
(a) Cable provider.
(b) Microchip producer.
(c) Commericial paper.
(d) Stock trader.

2. What essential activity do Rob and Julie disagree on in Chapter 2?
(a) Which newspaper to read.
(b) Hanging toilet paper.
(c) Driving habits.
(d) Setting the table.

3. Which of the following is not a photo that Antonio Damasio shows Elliot to elicit an emotional reaction?
(a) A flood.
(b) An earthquake area.
(c) A nude woman.
(d) A accident scene.

4. According to a study quoted in Chapter 7, ninety percent of couples that have children plan to do what?
(a) Move in together,
(b) Attend church.
(c) Get married.
(d) Graduate college.

5. Which Greek figure does Harold compare himself to in his journal when discussing anger?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hector.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what term does Brooks use to describe the mechanism that tells us how we are viewed?

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

3. What idea for a topic does Harold come up with his first night of writing?

4. In Chapter 5, Brooks states that there is little connection between a child's ability to complete homework and what?

5. What does Erica decide to do at the end of Chapter 10?

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