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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 activity does the author most often engage in when he is avoiding work?
(a) Baking.
(b) Online shopping.
(c) Doing yard work.
(d) Riding his bike.

2. What does the acronym RAIN stand for?
(a) Recognizing, accepting, illuminating, and non-attaching from the world.
(b) Recognizing, accepting, investigating, and non-attaching from the feeling.
(c) Relating, accepting, investigating, and non-attaching from the feeling.
(d) Recognizing, alleviating, investigating, and non-attaching from the consciousness.

3. In an experiment, male respondents in rooms with women were more likely to rate what as an important goal?
(a) Career.
(b) Survival.
(c) Wealth acquisition.
(d) Attractiveness.

4. Western Buddhism eliminates all but which of the following traditional Buddhist traditions?
(a) Meditation on one's own rotting corpse.
(b) Meditation on the pus within one's own body.
(c) Meditation on feces within one's body.
(d) The use of gongs.

5. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with what element?
(a) Pleasure and the anticipation of pleasure.
(b) Satiation.
(c) Hunger and the relief of hunger.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward what goal does the author hope to propel his readers?

2. What is the English translation of the word dvesha within the group of three poisons named in Buddhist texts?

3. What object does the author use as an example of illogical attachment to inanimate objects?

4. Who was the lead singer of the band Nirvana?

5. What adjective does the author apply to the phenomenon of road rage?

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