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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does Julie insist on keeping on during sex?
(a) Her shirt.
(b) Her glasses.
(c) Her socks.
(d) Her hat.

2. According to Brooks at the beginning of Chapter 1, what is never found in the homes of the upper-class group?
(a) Food.
(b) Children.
(c) A stand up shower.
(d) A television.

3. According to Brooks in Chapter 1, what surprises all people when they meet a possible mate?
(a) How difficult it is to seduce someone.
(b) How little most people know about politics.
(c) How much they have in common.
(d) How everyone orders the same first meal.

4. What subject does Ms. Taylor teach?
(a) Anatomy.
(b) History.
(c) English.
(d) Trigonometry.

5. What is the story Julia tells Harold in Chapter 5 about?
(a) Her first day of school.
(b) A road trip.
(c) The day he was born.
(d) Her parents.

6. What rare ability does Harold have in high school society?
(a) He can speak to girls.
(b) He can laugh at an insult.
(c) He can get A's without studying.
(d) He can mirror cliques.

7. Regarding our ability to process emotion and stimuli, to what does Brooks compare human beings?
(a) Laguardia.
(b) Heathrow.
(c) Grand Central Station.
(d) King's Cross.

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

9. At the beginning of the introduction, Brooks assures the reader that his protagonists are not what?
(a) Geniuses.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Heroes.

10. In Chapter 1, Damasio determines that people's unconscious selves draw on what to function?
(a) Past experiences.
(b) Pheromones.
(c) Intellectual formulations.
(d) Stimuli.

11. What is Ms. Taylor's tactic for making children learn?
(a) She drills information into them.
(b) She pays them.
(c) She teaches them to take pleasure in it.
(d) She uses references to popular culture.

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

13. In Chapter 4, what is Harold's favorite pastimes besides bonding with Julia?
(a) Riding the dog.
(b) Bonding with Rob.
(c) Pulling things off tables.
(d) Sleeping.

14. What superlative does Brooks use to describe his story in the introduction?
(a) Worst.
(b) Simplest.
(c) Strangest.
(d) Happiest.

15. At the end of Chapter 5, what regular event is a constant trauma in Harold's life?
(a) Going to school on Monday.
(b) Taking a bath.
(c) Visiting friends' houses.
(d) His parents' doing out.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Brooks show that neurons do when we are near someone we are bonded to socially?

2. According to Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia, how many pieces of information can the unconscious mind take in?

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

4. What is the first thing Ms. Taylor tells Harold to do to prepare for his paper?

5. According to James LeDoux in Chapter 1, what is the relationship of the conscious mind to emotion?

(see the answer keys)

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