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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does the author hear a group meditation that causes him to become enraged?
(a) A beeping car alarm.
(b) Pecking.
(c) A rooster.
(d) Snoring.

2. What sound does the author refer to in his personal anecdote about reducing negative feelings?
(a) The sound of a buzz saw.
(b) The sound of the dishwasher.
(c) The sound of traffic.
(d) The sound of a jackhammer.

3. What question does the author explicitly raise about skin?
(a) Whether our skin does indeed carry sound vibrations from times throughout our lives.
(b) Whether our skin is really as significant a boundary as we instinctively assume.
(c) Whether our skin requires touch from others in order to regenerate itself.
(d) Whether our skin has the power to heal itself if we meditate effectively enough.

4. The author suggests that the reader check out the enlightenment scene in which film in order to get an idea of the vibrancy of the experience?
(a) Shaolin.
(b) Kundun.
(c) Holy Smoke.
(d) Little Buddha.

5. The word tanha is NOT translated as which word in English?
(a) Craving.
(b) Desire.
(c) Thirst.
(d) Hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does the author NOT list as one that is likely to arise when one feels that meditation is not going well?

2. What experiments are said to have "powerfully demonstrated the capacity of the conscious self to convince itself that it is calling the shots when it is not" (79)?

3. Within which type of psychology have scientists learned that people can judge each other quickly through non-verbal communication?

4. What piece of text asserts that "Form is emptiness" (143)?

5. What system within the body is responsible for rewards?

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