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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does the author refer to in his personal anecdote about reducing negative feelings?
(a) The sound of a jackhammer.
(b) The sound of traffic.
(c) The sound of the dishwasher.
(d) The sound of a buzz saw.

2. What is the Samadhiraja Sutra?
(a) A Taoist text.
(b) A Buddhist relic.
(c) A Buddhist text.
(d) A Shinto relic.

3. What adverb is used to describe briefly exposing someone to a word or an image, but not long enough for conscious awareness to set in?
(a) Multilingually.
(b) Subdermally.
(c) Undertemporally.
(d) Subliminally.

4. The author states that he suspects that our recognition of familiar people, pets, and even objects within our lives is based on what?
(a) Survival tactics.
(b) Our ideas about them.
(c) Our feelings about them.
(d) Competitive feelings.

5. The author introduces what concept in order to urge the reader to find more happiness in his or her own life?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Aesthetic beauty.
(c) Formlessness.
(d) Emptiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that one must simply attempt to move toward not-self through performing what action?

2. What sensation does the author feel at the same time he hears a bird singing during his meditation epiphany?

3. The author suggests that if a person does not like what, then perhaps Eastern philosophy is not compatible with that person's beliefs?

4. In most people, the left hemisphere of the brain controls what?

5. The author states that specific types of what can turn off the autopilot mode for feelings?

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