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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states that "modules seem to have the ability to recruit" (130) what on behalf of their goals?
(a) Tenets of belief.
(b) Reasons.
(c) Other modules.
(d) Faith.

3. In most people, the left hemisphere of the brain controls what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Decision-making.
(c) Affection.
(d) Language.

4. The author spends much of Chapter 13 arguing that the bird's song is part of what?
(a) The ocean of sound waves.
(b) The author.
(c) The universal law.
(d) The oneness of being.

5. What is the Samadhiraja Sutra?
(a) A Shinto relic.
(b) A Buddhist text.
(c) A Buddhist relic.
(d) A Taoist text.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3 of Buddhism is True?

2. Who is the author of the book called What the Buddah Taught?

3. The Buddah stated that what element is impermanent?

4. What does the author NOT list among the most popular reasons for people to try meditation?

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

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