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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?
(a) Darwinian.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Personal.
(d) Evolutionary.

2. Who is the author of the book called What the Buddah Taught?
(a) Ajahn Chah.
(b) Hadley Cantril.
(c) Walpola Rahula.
(d) Judson Brewer.

3. What kind of meditation does the author say produced a feeling that is probably similar to two hard drugs?
(a) Group meditation.
(b) Laughing meditation.
(c) Mindfulness meditation.
(d) Concentration meditation.

4. What adverb is used to describe briefly exposing someone to a word or an image, but not long enough for conscious awareness to set in?
(a) Multilingually.
(b) Subdermally.
(c) Undertemporally.
(d) Subliminally.

5. The author suggests that the reader check out the enlightenment scene in which film in order to get an idea of the vibrancy of the experience?
(a) Little Buddha.
(b) Shaolin.
(c) Kundun.
(d) Holy Smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that what feeling is linked to our modern environmental mismatch?

2. The idea within vipassana meditation is to see the true nature of what?

3. When ancient Buddhist writings mention the term sati, what does the word mean in English?

4. What is the meaning of the term metta?

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

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