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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?
(a) It is actually that one mental compartment is larger than another.
(b) It is actually that the sense of self is ebbing away.
(c) It is actually that one module is stronger than another in a particular situation.
(d) It is actually that the not-self is becoming fully realized.

2. The author states that even perceptual judgments are a layer of meaning imposed onto what?
(a) Oneself.
(b) The outside world.
(c) Perception.
(d) Inquiry.

3. The Buddah stated that what element is impermanent?
(a) Self.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Life.
(d) Englightenment.

4. What is NOT an element the author lists as being said by Jesus Christ?
(a) I am the life.
(b) I am the love.
(c) I am the way.
(d) I am the truth.

5. The author states that "coherence of motivation, though a desirable quality in a friend or collaborator, isn't by itself" (82) what?
(a) True.
(b) Decisive.
(c) Satisfying.
(d) Effective.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that he suspects that what word is dependent upon "a melange of feelings that you've come to associate with" this object?

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

3. The psychologist Paul Bloom writes that what concept is a human universal?

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

5. The first time the author attended a week-long meditation retreat, he was allowed to speak how many times?

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