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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Vermeer.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Dali.

2. What object does the author use as a metaphor for the feelings that connect one’s conscious mind and one’s thoughts?
(a) Rubber.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Foam.
(d) Glue.

3. Chapter 10 is entitled "Encounters With the" what?
(a) Formless.
(b) Universe.
(c) Faithful.
(d) Empty.

4. In an experiment, male respondents in rooms with women were more likely to rate what as an important goal?
(a) Survival.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Career.
(d) Wealth acquisition.

5. To what cause does the author attribute his unnatural attachment to a particular type of object?
(a) The unconscious emotional conditioning that occurred during his history with the object.
(b) The satisfactory reward that he knew would soon arrive when he saw this object.
(c) The connection of this object with his mother's illness.
(d) The connection of this object with his father's affection and love for the family.

6. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?
(a) It is actually that one mental compartment is larger than another.
(b) It is actually that the sense of self is ebbing away.
(c) It is actually that one module is stronger than another in a particular situation.
(d) It is actually that the not-self is becoming fully realized.

7. What is the Samadhiraja Sutra?
(a) A Buddhist relic.
(b) A Shinto relic.
(c) A Taoist text.
(d) A Buddhist text.

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

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

10. The author states that as times change, so should conclusions and what other element?
(a) Behaviors.
(b) Understandings.
(c) Findings.
(d) Modules.

11. The author states that what element only acts as a proxy between various feelings?
(a) Reason.
(b) Sight.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Synapses.

12. Which philosopher compared the relationship between feelings and the rational self to the relationship between horses and a charioteer?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Hume.

13. The author states that he understands if the reader sees the words "formlessness" and "emptiness" and thinks of which two other words?
(a) Bleak and stark.
(b) Unflinching and rigorous.
(c) Gloomy and doomed.
(d) Crazy and depressing.

14. What sound does the author refer to in his personal anecdote about reducing negative feelings?
(a) The sound of traffic.
(b) The sound of the dishwasher.
(c) The sound of a buzz saw.
(d) The sound of a jackhammer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that neither kind of module in the chocolate anecdote was more what than another?

2. The author states that one must simply attempt to move toward not-self through performing what action?

3. What system within the body is responsible for rewards?

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

5. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is described as the seat of what?

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