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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Brooks in Chapter 4, early childhood is when Harold does what fastest?
(a) Learns.
(b) Eats.
(c) Falls asleep.
(d) Gets attention.

2. What does Erica realize she has become at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) A fabulist.
(b) A robot.
(c) A different person.
(d) A sociopath.

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

4. As Erica makes her way through the Academy, she becomes what type of person?
(a) An organizer.
(b) A competitor.
(c) An artist.
(d) An introvert.

5. Who introduces Erica to Harold?
(a) Harrison.
(b) A friend of Erica's.
(c) Mark.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What separates us from animals, according to Brooks in the introduction?

2. Who does Erica confide in regarding her tantrum in Chapter 8?

3. What does Harold become involved with in Chapter 17 that changes his life?

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

5. What does Erica realize about her success at the beginning of Chapter 21?

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