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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system within the body is responsible for rewards?
(a) The digestive system.
(b) The cardiovascular system.
(c) The dopamine system.
(d) The endocrine system.

2. The author states that he suspects that our recognition of familiar people, pets, and even objects within our lives is based on what?
(a) Competitive feelings.
(b) Survival tactics.
(c) Our feelings about them.
(d) Our ideas about them.

3. To what cause does the author attribute his unnatural attachment to a particular type of object?
(a) The unconscious emotional conditioning that occurred during his history with the object.
(b) The satisfactory reward that he knew would soon arrive when he saw this object.
(c) The connection of this object with his father's affection and love for the family.
(d) The connection of this object with his mother's illness.

4. What is NOT one of the five aggregates named by The Buddha when he first split the self into five aggregates?
(a) Longings.
(b) The physical body.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Mental formations.

5. Who is the author of the book called What the Buddah Taught?
(a) Walpola Rahula.
(b) Judson Brewer.
(c) Ajahn Chah.
(d) Hadley Cantril.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author describes the colors of his hallucination during meditation, what colors does he name?

2. What do psychologists call the network in the brain that is active when people are not doing anything in particular?

3. The author states that he understands if the reader sees the words "formlessness" and "emptiness" and thinks of which two other words?

4. The Capgras delusion causes an afflicted person to think that a loved one is what?

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

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