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

2. Which of the following examples is used by the author to demonstrate that human brains are not foolproof?
(a) Optical illusions.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) Super-8 videos.

3. 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?
(a) Cloud.
(b) Biscuit.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Ocean.

4. What emotion does the author NOT list as one that is likely to arise when one feels that meditation is not going well?
(a) Anger.
(b) Awareness.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Self-loathing.

5. What Rolling Stones song does the author say perfectly encapsulates the human condition from the Buddhist point of view?
(a) I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
(b) Salt of the Earth.
(c) Gimme Shelter.
(d) You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the author use as a metaphor for the feelings that connect one’s conscious mind and one’s thoughts?

2. What is the English translation of the word anatta?

3. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?

4. What piece of text asserts that "Form is emptiness" (143)?

5. The author states that he understands if the reader sees the words "formlessness" and "emptiness" and thinks of which two other words?

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