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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. What nearly happened to Erica at age 10?
(a) She nearly lost her mother.
(b) She nearly got arrested.
(c) She was nearly sent to China.
(d) She nearly died.

2. In Chapter 13, Brooks states that the desire for limerence explains people's desire to do what?
(a) Create great works of art.
(b) Make money.
(c) Procreate.
(d) Join certain groups.

3. What did Walter Mischel suggest children do in his marshmallow experiment which helped them wait longer to eat the candy?
(a) Suck their thumbs.
(b) Shut their eyes.
(c) Drink a glass of milk.
(d) Imagine it was something else.

4. How does Erica's school respond to her tennis match tantrum in Chapter 8?
(a) They have a school meeting.
(b) They kick her off the team.
(c) They expel her.
(d) They put her on academic probation.

5. On the same day Harold meets Erica, his friend, Mark, offers him a job doing what?
(a) Testing video games.
(b) Programming software.
(c) Writing speeches.
(d) Producing films.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what term does Brooks use to describe the mechanism that tells us how we are viewed?

2. What does Erica think of the entrepreneur she meets at the Academy in Chapter 9?

3. Which of the following is not a step of human decision-making?

4. What is the physical indication that Erica and Harold's relationship is becoming romantic in Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 14, Brooks states that the Recession led to an essential reduction in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Academy schedule different from public school?

2. Describe Erica's experience at the consulting firm.

3. How does Erica almost get arrested in Chapter 7?

4. How does Brooks describe the relationship between the unconscious and the conscious mind in Chapter 15?

5. How does the success of Erica's business affect her marriage?

6. Why is Amy facing so may problems in Chapter 7?

7. What is limerence?

8. What traumatic event occurs to Erica during a tennis match in Chapter 8?

9. How does Harold battle overweening passion in Chapter 13?

10. Describe the ideology of Rationalism.

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