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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Bowlby determine was key to a child's development?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Safety.
(c) Stimulation.
(d) Fiber.

2. According to Brooks in the Introduction what do Harold and Erica inherit?
(a) Their self-images.
(b) Their politics.
(c) Their intellects.
(d) Their capacity to love.

3. How much more likely are people to laugh with others than by themselves?
(a) Fifty times.
(b) Thirty times.
(c) Twelve times.
(d) Five times.

4. In Chapter 1, Damasio determines that people's unconscious selves draw on what to function?
(a) Pheromones.
(b) Intellectual formulations.
(c) Stimuli.
(d) Past experiences.

5. What Greek term becomes the topic of Harold's paper in Chapter 6?
(a) Thumos.
(b) Hubris.
(c) Anagnorisis.
(d) Catharsis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, Brooks laments that most social policy is based on what understanding of humanity?

2. What is the story Julia tells Harold in Chapter 5 about?

3. Whose method does Brooks acknowledge he is borrowing in the introduction?

4. What is the term that Antonio Damasio coins?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 5, to what does Brooks compare Harold's writing on his worksheet?

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