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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

2. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

3. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Prevalent.
(d) Lost.

4. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Bitterness.

5. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

2. Where was Albert Michotte from?

3. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

4. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

5. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?

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