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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 is the title of the website the author runs in order to dialogue with brain science and serious meditators?
(a) Bloggingshrinks.tv.
(b) Bloggingheads.tv.
(c) Bloggingdocs.tv.
(d) Bloggingmadscientist.tv.

2. What does the author NOT use as an example of the indirect evidence received by the human brain?
(a) Sound waves emanating from a jet plane.
(b) Particles of light that bounce off trees.
(c) Atoms contained within an electrical storm.
(d) Molecules that waft across the street from a bakery.

3. When scientists conducted an experiment asking people to choose one of four identical pairs of pantyhose, which one did they most often choose?
(a) The far right pair.
(b) The second from far left pair.
(c) The far left pair.
(d) The second from far right pair.

4. What do psychologists call the condition of "being stuck" in the natural human cycle of ultimately futile pleasure-seeking?
(a) The hamster wheel.
(b) The never-ending spiral.
(c) The great illusion.
(d) The hedonic treadmill.

5. Buddha argues that for an aggregate to constitute an aspect of a self, it must be what two things?
(a) Mutable and permanent.
(b) Enduring and permanent.
(c) Aesthetically pleasing and quick.
(d) Righteous and strong.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author say is the only thought people have when eyeing a sugar doughnut?

3. What is the one thing that the author says natural selection "cares about" (3)?

4. William James wrote, "Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls" (196) what "the line is difficult to draw" (196)?

5. How many minutes does the author say he spends meditating each morning?

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