1) What is the speaker’s main purpose in this talk? a) Prove emotions are universal b) Teach emotion control c) Argue emotions shaped by culture d) List untranslatable words 2) Why does the speaker ask the audience to close their eyes and identify their emotions? a) Test their memory b) Name every feeling clearly c) Show complex emotions d) Share feelings with others 3) According to the speaker, what is “emotional intelligence”? a) Hide emotions in public b) Recognize and name emotions c) Feel more emotions d) Avoid sadness and anger 4) What does the speaker say about the theory of six basic emotions? a) Most accurate model b) Outdated, replace it c) Oversimplifies emotions d) Invented in 21st century 5) What does the speaker suggest when she mentions “accidie”? a) Medieval people were lazy b) Demons are real c) Emotions shaped by beliefs d) Lethargy is medical 6) How does the speaker describe the change in the meaning of “nostalgia”? a) Longing for a person b) Serious medical diagnosis c) Deadly illness to mild feeling d) Not used in English 7) Why does the speaker mention 16th-century self-help books? a) People were unhappy b) Sadness better than happiness c) Sadness was valuable skill d) Criticize modern self-help 8) What does the Baining people’s ritual with the bowl of water show? a) Believe in ghosts b) Dislike guests c) Emotions tied to rituals d) Water has healing powers 9) What does the Japanese word “amae” describe? a) Guilt of leaving someone b) Joy of being alone c) Pleasure of depending on someone d) Sadness of losing a friend 10) What does the speaker imply about the word “boredom”? a) Natural emotion always existed b) Invented by children c) Concept with leisure ideas d) Same in all cultures 11) In the sentence: “Some emotions wash the world in a single color…”, what does “wash the world” mean? a) Clean the environment b) Cover with one feeling c) Make people cry d) Erase memories 12) In the sentence: “We hurry away from [some emotions], fearing they’ll burst on us…”, what does “burst on us” mean? a) Explode physically b) Arrive suddenly and overwhelm c) Be shouted loudly d) Be forgotten quickly 13) In the sentence: “They are shaped not just by our bodies, but by our thoughts, our concepts, our language.”, what is the function of the structure? a) List unrelated ideas b) Repetition for effect c) Emphasize influencing factors d) Confuse with details 14) In the sentence: “What if I was to tell you that in the 12th century…?”, what grammatical feature is used? a) Passive voice b) Conditional for past scenarios c) Present perfect tense d) Inversion for emphasis 15) In the sentence: “This change seems to have happened in the early 20th century.”, what does “seems to have happened” suggest? a) Event is certain b) Guessing without evidence c) Educated inference d) Event happening now 16) In the sentence: “Learning new and unusual words for emotions will help attune us to the more finely grained aspects of our inner lives.”, what does “attune us to” mean? a) Make us ignore b) Become sensitive to c) Cause us to forget d) Replace old feelings 17) In the sentence: “True emotional intelligence requires that we understand the social, the political, the cultural forces…”, what grammatical structure is used? a) Simple subject-verb-object b) Cleft sentence c) That-clause after necessity d) Passive voice 18) In the sentence: “It’s a French word, ‘dépaysement.’ It evokes the giddy disorientation that you feel in an unfamiliar place.”, what is the function of the second clause? a) Introduce a contradiction b) Define and explain c) Criticize the word d) Compare to another emotion 19) Which sentence best demonstrates fronting for emphasis? a) We celebrate happiness. b) Happiness makes us better. c) Dépaysement is unsettling. d) Favorite part of being historian. 20) In the sentence: “I think we could learn from this today.”, what phrasal verb is implied by “learn from”? a) Look back on b) Take as a lesson c) Forget about d) Copy behavior

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