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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brooks say both Julia and Rob worry about doing when they meet?
(a) Coming off as dumb.
(b) Coming off as aloof.
(c) Coming off as cocky.
(d) Coming off as desperate.

2. In Chapter 5, Brooks states that Harold left to his own devices does not seem what?
(a) Encumbered.
(b) Bored.
(c) Happy.
(d) Self-conscious.

3. Whose method does Brooks acknowledge he is borrowing in the introduction?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Rousseau's.
(c) Norman Mailer's.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell's.

4. As he grows in Chapter 4, Harold develops the ability to always quote an appropriate what?
(a) Music lyric.
(b) Political quote.
(c) Bedtime story.
(d) Grocery price.

5. According to Brooks in Chapter 1, what surprises all people when they meet a possible mate?
(a) How everyone orders the same first meal.
(b) How much they have in common.
(c) How difficult it is to seduce someone.
(d) How little most people know about politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brooks in Chapter 1, everyone likes to believe that he/she is what?

2. What disorder does Amy have?

3. According to Brooks at the beginning of Chapter 1, what large accessory do his social ascendants always have?

4. In her junior and senior years, what does Erica put at the center of her focus in order to control her temper?

5. What idea for a topic does Harold come up with his first night of writing?

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