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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 piece of text asserts that "Form is emptiness" (143)?
(a) The Kama Sutra.
(b) The Four Principles.
(c) The Heart Sutra.
(d) The Samadhiraja Sutra.

2. The psychologist Paul Bloom writes that what concept is a human universal?
(a) Essentialism.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Deconstructionism.

3. Who is said to have remarked that our faculties of reason are controlled by passions, otherwise known as feelings, according to the author?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Kant.
(d) Hume.

4. Chapter 10 is entitled "Encounters With the" what?
(a) Universe.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Empty.
(d) Formless.

5. What is the one thing that the author says natural selection "cares about" (3)?
(a) Survival.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Procreation.
(d) Sustenance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?

2. In the philosophical illustration focused on a charioteer and horses, what does the charioteer represent?

3. What type of plant does the author now recognize as beautiful after his meditation retreat?

4. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?

5. The author states that what elements are just tools to help the brain sort the importance of various thoughts?

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