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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is described as the seat of what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Abstract reasoning.
(d) The ego.

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

5. What is the English translation of the word anatta?
(a) Not-self.
(b) Tranquility.
(c) Peace.
(d) Suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did the author attend his very first silent meditation retreat?

2. The author states that neither kind of module in the chocolate anecdote was more what than another?

3. The author states that "modules seem to have the ability to recruit" (130) what on behalf of their goals?

4. How did the author feel when his meditation teacher told him that his frustration with meditation was a good sign?

5. Which of the three schools of meditation supports the idea that a critical distance of separation between the self and individual thoughts will give the conscious self more control?

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