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

2. The tanha is said to be inextricably linked to the sensation of what?
(a) The ego.
(b) The self.
(c) The universe.
(d) The not-self.

3. The Buddha said that engagement is the product of a what?
(a) A lust.
(b) A power.
(c) A feeling.
(d) A shame.

4. Who is the author of the book called What the Buddah Taught?
(a) Ajahn Chah.
(b) Judson Brewer.
(c) Hadley Cantril.
(d) Walpola Rahula.

5. 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) Undertemporally.
(c) Subliminally.
(d) Subdermally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?

2. The author presents a scenario wherein someone imagines his or her speech is going to go badly, but it goes fine. What term does the author give to this phenomenon?

3. The author states that the experience with the sound annoying him during the group meditation practice seems to have briefly made him a better what?

4. The author states that rather than seeing the world as hopeless and empty, enlightened and otherwise accomplished meditators see each individual object, person, and experience as empty in the sense that it does not have a preset what?

5. The author states that seeing the world as what is an essential step on the path to enlightenment?

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