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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. Who is said to have remarked that our faculties of reason are controlled by passions, otherwise known as feelings, according to the author?
(a) Hume.
(b) Kant.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Maslow.

2. What object does the author NOT list when explaining what he means by "forms" (142)?
(a) Cabinets.
(b) Trucks.
(c) Bowling balls.
(d) Tables.

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

4. In the philosophical illustration focused on a charioteer and horses, what does the charioteer represent?
(a) The adrenal gland.
(b) The prefrontal cortex.
(c) The hypothalamus gland.
(d) The temporal lobe.

5. When the author discusses his wife in an illustration, whom does he name as a potential stimulus in his wife's environment that would be “seen to not merit extended, conscious appraisal” (163)?
(a) The author's brother.
(b) The author's sister.
(c) The author's uncle.
(d) The author's father-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that the idea of enlightenment is to take what action in regard to one's delusions?

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

3. To what cause does the author attribute his unnatural attachment to a particular type of object?

4. What does the chocolate symbolize in the author's anecdote?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of mindfulness meditation and how is it performed?

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

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

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

5. For what purpose does the author discuss his disagreement with a prominent meditation teacher?

6. What is one method the author suggests for a way to observe one's thoughts objectively?

7. How does the author use the example of weeds and flowers to make a point about emptiness?

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

9. 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?

10. Explain the emptiness doctrine presented by the author within the chapter entitled Encounters with the Formless.

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