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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?
(a) Gratification.
(b) Death.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Injury.

2. The Buddah lived and taught how many years ago?
(a) 3,500.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 700.
(d) 2,500.

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

4. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?
(a) There should be more of a focus on the immediate pleasure than on the way it will soon dissipate.
(b) The pleasure associated with the goals should not last forever.
(c) Aesthetic considerations.
(d) Achieving the goals should bring pleasure.

5. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?
(a) Forensics.
(b) Biology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Geology.

Short Answer 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?

2. Whom does the author name as the two people who would be on the highest end of the spectrum as far as ease of meditation goes?

3. What is the name of the eminent twentieth-century scholar of Buddhism?

4. The author compares self-discipline to what part of the human body?

5. What is NOT listed among the traditional practices of Asian Buddhists not practiced by Western Buddhists?

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