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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?
(a) Injury.
(b) Gratification.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Death.

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

3. What emotion does the author say he feels when he is getting ready for a public speaking engagement?
(a) Pride.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Shame.

4. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?
(a) Only third.
(b) First and second.
(c) First and third.
(d) Second and third.

5. The author compares self-discipline to what part of the human body?
(a) A blood vessel.
(b) A heart.
(c) A muscle.
(d) A bone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddha stated that what emotion has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip" (30)?

2. What do psychologists call the condition of "being stuck" in the natural human cycle of ultimately futile pleasure-seeking?

3. What Rolling Stones song does the author say perfectly encapsulates the human condition from the Buddhist point of view?

4. What is the English translation of the title of the Buddhist text called the Satipatthana Sutta?

5. Chapter 7 is entitled "The Mental Modules That Run Your" what?

(see the answer key)

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