1. What is the first question from Category #2 (medium intimacy) that Daniel and Natasha choose to ask one another?
(a) What is your most treasured memory?
(b) How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
(c) Would you like to be famous?
(d) Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

2. What does Natasha define romantic love as being in the novel?
(a) A basic known fact.
(b) Temporary and nonprovable.
(c) Everlasting and true.
(d) Dependent upon Fate.

3. From what narrative perspective is “Irene: A History" related?
(a) Third-person.
(b) Fourth-person.
(c) Second-person.
(d) First-person.

4. Why is the attorney unable to meet with Natasha when she first arrives for her appointment?
(a) He has quit his job.
(b) He has gone to a seminar.
(c) He has been in a car accident.
(d) He has the flu.

5. What chemicals in the brain orchestrate the stages of love, according to the narrator in “Love: A Chemical History”?
(a) Homoglobes.
(b) Atigens.
(c) Neurotransmitters.
(d) Datatons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the study where the researcher put two strangers into a room and had them ask one another intimate questions, how long were the subjects supposed to stare into one another's eyes without speaking?

2. From what college is the alumnus that Daniel is preparing to interview with in the beginning of the novel?

3. What do Daniel's parents want him to be when he grows up?

4. For how long has Daniel's older brother been forced to withdraw from college in the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Irene want to confiscate but does not, in “Irene: A History"?

(see the answer key)

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