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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Self-control.
(c) Deception.
(d) Impulse.

2. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A crawl.
(b) A stroll.
(c) A race.
(d) A sprint.

3. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of an angry woman.
(b) A picture of a stream.
(c) A compound sentence.
(d) A multiplication problem.

4. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) A smiling man.
(b) A beach.
(c) An angry woman.
(d) A smiling woman.

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Samoff Mednick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Shane Frederick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

2. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?

3. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

4. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

5. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?

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