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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When scientists conducted an experiment asking people to choose one of four identical pairs of pantyhose, which one did they most often choose?
(a) The far right pair.
(b) The second from far right pair.
(c) The far left pair.
(d) The second from far left pair.

2. How many parts belong to the Path that "deeply committed Buddhists are supposed to tread" (48)?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. The author states that he understands if the reader sees the words "formlessness" and "emptiness" and thinks of which two other words?
(a) Gloomy and doomed.
(b) Crazy and depressing.
(c) Unflinching and rigorous.
(d) Bleak and stark.

4. What is the name of the professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University discussed by the author?
(a) Malcolm David Eckel.
(b) Martin Daly.
(c) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(d) Robert Kurzban.

5. 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) Subdermally.
(b) Multilingually.
(c) Subliminally.
(d) Undertemporally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?

2. In most people, the left hemisphere of the brain controls what?

3. What is the term for the tendency to attribute inner essences to things?

4. With what system is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex associated?

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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