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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Greek term becomes the topic of Harold's paper in Chapter 6?
(a) Thumos.
(b) Anagnorisis.
(c) Hubris.
(d) Catharsis.

4. According to Brooks in the Introduction what do Harold and Erica inherit?
(a) Their politics.
(b) Their intellects.
(c) Their capacity to love.
(d) Their self-images.

5. By the end of Chapter 6, Ms. Taylor has taught Harold to do what?
(a) Read.
(b) Learn.
(c) Experience life.
(d) Let go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose method does Brooks acknowledge he is borrowing in the introduction?

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

3. In the beginning of Chapter 5, to what does Brooks compare Harold's writing on his worksheet?

4. What rare ability does Harold have in high school society?

5. What is the term that Antonio Damasio coins?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ms. Taylor guide Harold's reading in Chapter 6?

2. How does Harold's tiger statement in Chapter 4 illustrate a complex human process?

3. How did Brooks come up with the idea of telling a story to illustrate his social critique?

4. What does Damasio determine about living without emotion in Chapter 1?

5. Who is Elliot, and how did he become involved with Antonio Damasio?

6. Why does Timothy Wilson think that the unconscious mind does the majority of the work in thinking?

7. How does Brooks use the meeting of Julia and Rob to illustrate the surprise of similarities?

8. What is Harold's goal from conception on?

9. According to Brooks, what separates us from other animals?

10. What are mirror neurons?

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