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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 uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?
(a) Intertemporal reality.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Delusion.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. Chapter 7 is entitled "The Mental Modules That Run Your" what?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Life.
(c) Day.
(d) Machine.

3. Robert Zajonc equates having feelings about something with performing what other action?
(a) Assessing one's self.
(b) Deciding upon next steps.
(c) Contemplating those feelings.
(d) Making judgments about things.

4. In what decade were the famous series of experiments conducted by Benjamin Libet?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1970s.

5. Chandrakirti was an Indian Buddhist scholar who lived in what century?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Seventeenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that the idea of enlightenment is to take what action in regard to one's delusions?

2. The author states that one of the most famous delusions in all of Buddhism is the illusion of what?

3. The author suggests that if a person does not like what, then perhaps Eastern philosophy is not compatible with that person's beliefs?

4. When scientists conducted an experiment asking people to choose one of four identical pairs of pantyhose, which one did they most often choose?

5. What doctrine emphasizes that nothing has any essence?

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