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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the traditional practices of Asian Buddhists not practiced by Western Buddhists?
(a) Fixation on bodily fluids during meditative practice.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Belief in reincarnation.
(d) Belief in a variety of deities.

2. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?
(a) Pain.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Peace.

3. What is NOT an element the author lists as being said by Jesus Christ?
(a) I am the way.
(b) I am the love.
(c) I am the life.
(d) I am the truth.

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

5. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Personal.
(c) Evolutionary.
(d) Darwinian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ratio does the author say he usually experiences throughout a meditation retreat when he mentions that part is bliss and part is difficult?

2. What problem does the author say afflicts him when he is trying to work?

3. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?

4. What does the lizard represent at the meditation retreat attended by the author?

5. Which philosopher compared the relationship between feelings and the rational self to the relationship between horses and a charioteer?

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