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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author feel when his meditation teacher told him that his frustration with meditation was a good sign?
(a) Assured.
(b) Patronized.
(c) Ashamed.
(d) Proud.

2. On what body process should first-timers focus when meditating?
(a) Blood.
(b) Breath.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) Bile.

3. What adverb is used to describe briefly exposing someone to a word or an image, but not long enough for conscious awareness to set in?
(a) Undertemporally.
(b) Multilingually.
(c) Subliminally.
(d) Subdermally.

4. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?
(a) It is actually that the not-self is becoming fully realized.
(b) It is actually that one mental compartment is larger than another.
(c) It is actually that one module is stronger than another in a particular situation.
(d) It is actually that the sense of self is ebbing away.

5. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?
(a) Only third.
(b) First and third.
(c) Second and third.
(d) First and second.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that what element only acts as a proxy between various feelings?

2. What type of bird was rated the most highly in the study introduced by the author under the heading "Infiltration of Perception by Feeling" (159)?

3. To what cause does the author attribute his unnatural attachment to a particular type of object?

4. The word vipassana is generally translated to what English word?

5. What activity does the author most often engage in when he is avoiding work?

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