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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that "modules seem to have the ability to recruit" (130) what on behalf of their goals?
(a) Faith.
(b) Other modules.
(c) Reasons.
(d) Tenets of belief.

2. The Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering bought a painting he thought was painted by what artist and later turned out to be a forgery?
(a) Vermeer.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Dali.

3. What is the name of the eminent twentieth-century scholar of Buddhism?
(a) Bhikkhu Bodhi.
(b) Jerome Barkow.
(c) Edward Conze.
(d) Aaron Beck.

4. The author states that rather than seeing the world as hopeless and empty, enlightened and otherwise accomplished meditators see each individual object, person, and experience as empty in the sense that it does not have a preset what?
(a) Connotation.
(b) Value.
(c) Truth.
(d) Worth.

5. When thoughts arise during meditation, the author states that they generally have all but which of the following characteristics?
(a) The thoughts will be accompanied by feelings of physical stress.
(b) The thoughts will be self-referential.
(c) They will involve the past or the future, rather than the present.
(d) The thoughts will reference other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 10 is entitled "Encounters With the" what?

2. The idea within vipassana meditation is to see the true nature of what?

3. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is described as the seat of what?

4. What is the name of the professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University discussed by the author?

5. What is NOT one of the five aggregates named by The Buddha when he first split the self into five aggregates?

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