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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of text asserts that "Form is emptiness" (143)?
(a) The Heart Sutra.
(b) The Four Principles.
(c) The Kama Sutra.
(d) The Samadhiraja Sutra.

2. What is the term for the tendency to attribute inner essences to things?
(a) Realism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Essentialism.
(d) Deconstructionism.

3. What type of bird was rated the most highly in the study introduced by the author under the heading "Infiltration of Perception by Feeling" (159)?
(a) Swans.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Robins.

4. The author states that neither kind of module in the chocolate anecdote was more what than another?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Definitive.
(c) Rational.
(d) Abstract.

5. The author notes that generally, the thoughts that arise during meditation follow how many common themes?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering bought a painting he thought was painted by what artist and later turned out to be a forgery?

2. 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?

3. The author states that perception is what type of process?

4. The psychologist Paul Bloom writes that what concept is a human universal?

5. In an experiment, male respondents in rooms with women were more likely to rate what as an important goal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author characterize the difference between tribal psychology and general psychology?

2. What connection does the author make between awareness and control and how is paradox used within the author's discussion of this connection?

3. What emotion is one of the most studied in relation to the phenomenon of modules governing behavior and why?

4. What is the RAIN technique discussed by the author and how can it help quell a harmful urge?

5. Discuss an instance of the author's use of humor to highlight a particular point being made in the text.

6. Discuss an instance when the author points out a potential pitfall of a regular meditation practice.

7. What four themes does the author state are generally focused upon within the passing thoughts observed during meditation?

8. What is the purpose for observing one's own thoughts within a meditation session?

9. How does the author use self-deprecation and discussion of his own flaws to further his purpose?

10. What three careers are used to characterize the three different schools of meditation and on which type does the author focus within Buddhism is True?

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