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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University discussed by the author?
(a) Malcolm David Eckel.
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(c) Robert Kurzban.
(d) Martin Daly.

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

3. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?
(a) Achieving the goals should bring pleasure.
(b) Aesthetic considerations.
(c) The pleasure associated with the goals should not last forever.
(d) There should be more of a focus on the immediate pleasure than on the way it will soon dissipate.

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

5. In an experiment, male respondents in rooms with women were more likely to rate what as an important goal?
(a) Wealth acquisition.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Survival.
(d) Career.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following feelings is the most often studied in connection with mental modules?

2. What problem does the author say afflicts him when he is trying to work?

3. When the author describes the colors of his hallucination during meditation, what colors does he name?

4. Toward what goal does the author hope to propel his readers?

5. Who is said to have remarked that our faculties of reason are controlled by passions, otherwise known as feelings, according to the author?

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