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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Mayer names three styles of handling one’s emotions. What is the second?
(a) The accepting.
(b) The justified.
(c) The engulfed.
(d) The self-aware.

2. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to a state of high concentration, self-forgetfulness, and mild ecstasy as being what?
(a) “On par.”
(b) “In tune.”
(c) “Hypersensitive.”
(d) “In flow.”

3. Psychologist C. R. Snyder studied students’ grades in relation to their level of what?
(a) Family wealth.
(b) Hope of success.
(c) Community involvement.
(d) Time spent watching television.

4. What component of the brain remembers facts and context?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The neocortex.
(d) The olfactory lobe.

5. What surrounds the brain stem like a ring providing improved tools for survival such as learning and memory?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The olfactory lobe.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The neocortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define emotional intelligence into five categories. What is the second category?

2. According to the author in Part Two: Chapter 5, “Passion's Slaves,” anger, if not cut off, will fuel itself into what?

3. According to the author, we cannot control when an emotion strikes or which emotion will strike, but we can control what?

4. Fear arouses the body to fight or flight by doing what within the body?

5. Dolf Zillmann gives two methods for diffusing anger. What is the second?

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