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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that what elements are just tools to help the brain sort the importance of various thoughts?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Senses.
(d) Modules.

2. The author states that the idea of enlightenment is to take what action in regard to one's delusions?
(a) To define them.
(b) To remember them.
(c) To lose them.
(d) To obscure them.

3. The Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering bought a painting he thought was painted by what artist and later turned out to be a forgery?
(a) Dali.
(b) Vermeer.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Rembrandt.

4. The author compares self-discipline to what part of the human body?
(a) A muscle.
(b) A bone.
(c) A heart.
(d) A blood vessel.

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

6. What is Robert Zajonc's field of expertise?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Physics.

7. Which of the following examples is used by the author to demonstrate that human brains are not foolproof?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Super-8 videos.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) Optical illusions.

8. Chapter 7 is entitled "The Mental Modules That Run Your" what?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Day.
(c) Life.
(d) Machine.

9. The author states that one must simply attempt to move toward not-self through performing what action?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Believing.
(c) Forgiving.
(d) Creating.

10. Within what situation should one practice the RAIN technique, according to the author?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Creating art.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Public speaking.

11. The author states that people often impose beliefs and structure onto various what?
(a) Sights.
(b) Smells.
(c) Religions.
(d) Sounds.

12. 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) Biscuit.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Butterfly.

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

14. What object does the author use as an example of illogical attachment to inanimate objects?
(a) A tape measure.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A thermometer.
(d) A xylophone.

15. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?
(a) Injury.
(b) Gratification.
(c) Death.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the tendency to attribute inner essences to things?

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

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

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. Which of the three schools of meditation supports the idea that a critical distance of separation between the self and individual thoughts will give the conscious self more control?

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