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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 does the author say is the only thought people have when eyeing a sugar doughnut?
(a) How eating it will leave them feeling tired or agitated later.
(b) How intensely they will want another one only seconds after eating this one.
(c) How eating it will help them relax.
(d) How good it will taste.

2. The author states that the idea of enlightenment is to take what action in regard to one's delusions?
(a) To define them.
(b) To remember them.
(c) To obscure them.
(d) To lose them.

3. According to Buddhist scripture, what is the name of the braggart who challenged The Buddha's notions of not-self?
(a) Thich Quang Duc.
(b) Bhikkhu Bodhi.
(c) Aggivessana.
(d) Ngo Din Diem.

4. What is the term for the tendency to attribute inner essences to things?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Essentialism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Deconstructionism.

5. The author notes that it is generally easier for one to distance oneself from one’s emotions than one’s what?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Love.
(d) Thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that what element only acts as a proxy between various feelings?

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

3. 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)?

4. The author states that what feeling is linked to our modern environmental mismatch?

5. The author states that after his feeling about the sound interrupting his meditative practice dissipated, he had become "a person no longer contemplating" (207) what?

(see the answer key)

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