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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 happened when the author analyzed closely his feelings before his speech at Poptech?
(a) The fear stayed within practicable limits.
(b) The shame increased.
(c) The fear went away.
(d) The anxiety seemed to ebb.

2. What question does the author explicitly raise about skin?
(a) Whether our skin has the power to heal itself if we meditate effectively enough.
(b) Whether our skin requires touch from others in order to regenerate itself.
(c) Whether our skin is really as significant a boundary as we instinctively assume.
(d) Whether our skin does indeed carry sound vibrations from times throughout our lives.

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) Ocean.
(b) Cloud.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Biscuit.

4. What is the name of the professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University discussed by the author?
(a) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(b) Robert Kurzban.
(c) Martin Daly.
(d) Malcolm David Eckel.

5. The author spends much of Chapter 13 arguing that the bird's song is part of what?
(a) The author.
(b) The ocean of sound waves.
(c) The oneness of being.
(d) The universal law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?

2. Within which type of psychology have scientists learned that people can judge each other quickly through non-verbal communication?

3. Which of the following examples is used by the author to demonstrate that human brains are not foolproof?

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

5. In the Buddah's first discourse following his enlightenment, he laid out how many Noble Truths?

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