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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. Which of the following is not an acquisition Taggart makes for Intercom?
(a) A biotech firm.
(b) A video game developer.
(c) An appliance store.
(d) A television company.

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

3. What industry does Erica go into after graduating college?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Financial services.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Consulting.

4. How does Brooks describe Erica's immediate family in Chapter 7?
(a) Fiercely religious.
(b) Downwardly mobile.
(c) A melting pot.
(d) Hardworking.

5. How do the founders of the Academy describe poverty in their mission?
(a) An emergent system.
(b) A fiction.
(c) A negligable factor.
(d) A social epidemic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a step of human decision-making?

2. Which of the following is an activity that Harold and Erica put off because of their busy schedules in Chapter 14?

3. What does Harold feel takes over his life in Chapter 13?

4. What disorder does Amy have?

5. What does Erica think of the entrepreneur she meets at the Academy in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ideology of Rationalism.

2. How does Erica almost get arrested in Chapter 7?

3. What did the marshmallow test predict about child development?

4. How do Raymond and Erica play major roles in the rebound of Intercom?

5. What traumatic event occurs to Erica during a tennis match in Chapter 8?

6. How does the business collapse in Chapter 14?

7. How do the founders of the Academy view poverty in America?

8. What is limerence?

9. What different trajectories do Harold and Erica's lives take in Chapter 15?

10. How does Erica come back from her explosion in Chapter 8?

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