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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 do children lack at an early age?
(a) An inner voice.
(b) The ability to have REM sleep.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Spatial reasoning.

2. What separates us from animals, according to Brooks in the introduction?
(a) Our ability to use tools.
(b) Our ability to form social bonds.
(c) Our ability to rationalize.
(d) Our ability to use language.

3. In Chapter 9, Erica determines that society is a series of overlying what?
(a) Interests.
(b) Ideologies.
(c) Incentives.
(d) Networks.

4. In Chapter 13, Harold ruminates that certain pagans considered what to be a god?
(a) Love.
(b) Fire.
(c) Genius.
(d) Woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Erica's school respond to her tennis match tantrum in Chapter 8?

2. What sport does Brooks associate with the children of his establishment set in Chapter 1?

3. How long is the memo the insurgents produce in Chapter 16?

4. According to Brooks at the beginning of Chapter 1, what large accessory do his social ascendants always have?

5. According to Brooks at the beginning of Chapter 1, where does all the furniture of the upper class liberal group come from?

(see the answer key)

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