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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, Brooks states that Harold left to his own devices does not seem what?
(a) Happy.
(b) Self-conscious.
(c) Encumbered.
(d) Bored.

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

4. What is laughter's major purpose, according to Brooks?
(a) Showing respect.
(b) Disarming foes.
(c) Forming bonds.
(d) Communicating directions.

5. How does Elliot lose his capacity to feel emotion in Chapter 1?
(a) He has a brain tumor.
(b) He is in a car accident.
(c) He has an aneurysm.
(d) He suffers a stroke.

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

7. Whose parents are Rob and Julia?
(a) David Brooks.
(b) Harold.
(c) Erica.
(d) Hostadter.

8. What does Ms. Taylor understand that teenagers are not?
(a) Empty vessels.
(b) Robots.
(c) Fighters.
(d) Erratic creatures.

9. In Chapter 1, what does Antonio Damasio have difficulty doing with Elliot?
(a) Planning sessions in advance.
(b) Completing math problems.
(c) Playing memory games.
(d) Holding his attention.

10. Based on a misunderstanding with his parents in Chapter 5, what does Harold fear will happen if he does not behave?
(a) He will be starved.
(b) He'll be sent to China.
(c) He won't get to go to school.
(d) His hands will be cut off.

11. In Chapter 2, Brooks points out that the female orgasm is what type of process?
(a) A moral process.
(b) A mental process.
(c) A liminoid process.
(d) A physical process.

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

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

14. What idea for a topic does Harold come up with his first night of writing?
(a) He narrows down his topics to two.
(b) He comes up with no ideas.
(c) He decides to focus on the idea of honor.
(d) He decides to focus on Odysseus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what group of teenagers does Brooks say is discriminated against?

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

5. What book about Classical culture does Ms. Taylor give to Harold in Chapter 6?

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