a)       defying his mum

b)      feeling constrained in an overly-organized room

c)       his hard-working character

 

2)       The National Association of Professional Organizers, or NAPO, is an organization which________________________________________________________________

 

3)      How does having a messy desk help us?

a)       Being overly-neat and organized is good for psychology

b)      Being in a complete mess has the potential to do good for us 

c)       Being messy makes it convenient to locate things more easily

 

4)      Leon Heppel, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is given as an example in order to…..

a)       provide evidence for the benefits of being messy

b)      demonstrate why researchers should try to be messier to be successful

c)       show that being disorganized is an indispensible trait for the success of researchers

5)      Another famous messy scientist mentioned by the speaker is___________________

6)      Which one of the following is not mentioned in the book for being messy?

a)       desks

b)      houses

c)       post offices

7) Which is NOT one of the arguments used in favour of mess? 

a)       mess has the potential to contribute to new discoveries

b)      children’s health may be affected negatively by too clean spaces

c)       it can encourage better remembering and learning in children 

d)      disorganized people can be less successuful but more open-minded

8) _______________wrote ideas in disorganized notebooks. 

9) The speaker’s tone about neatness is…

a)       inquisitive 

b)      sceptical 

c)       approving