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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Rob and Luis get married in Chapter 1, what task does Rob always insist on handling?
(a) Fixing things.
(b) Cooking dinner.
(c) Planning vacations.
(d) Choosing movies.

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

3. What superlative does Brooks use to describe his story in the introduction?
(a) Worst.
(b) Strangest.
(c) Happiest.
(d) Simplest.

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

5. What book about Classical culture does Ms. Taylor give to Harold in Chapter 6?
(a) I, Claudius.
(b) Memoirs of Hadrian.
(c) The Greek Way.
(d) Meditations.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 5, what regular event is a constant trauma in Harold's life?

2. According to Brooks in Chapter 1, what surprises all people when they meet a possible mate?

3. According to Brooks in Chapter 4, early childhood is when Harold does what fastest?

4. Which of the following ridiculous items is listed in the homework requirements in Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What trauma does Harold experience at the end of Chapter 5?

2. What did John Bowlby's research reveal about childhood?

3. What does Damasio determine about living without emotion in Chapter 1?

4. How does Harold's tiger statement in Chapter 4 illustrate a complex human process?

5. How does Brooks describe the day-to-day life of the Composure Class?

6. What great skill does Harold have in high school?

7. What are mirror neurons?

8. Why does Timothy Wilson think that the unconscious mind does the majority of the work in thinking?

9. How does Ms. Taylor guide Harold's reading in Chapter 6?

10. Who is Elliot, and how did he become involved with Antonio Damasio?

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