View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does the author say he feels when he is getting ready for a public speaking engagement?
(a) Shame.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Pride.

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

3. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?
(a) Only third.
(b) Second and third.
(c) First and second.
(d) First and third.

4. Which group of people does the author say especially identified with the film he references within the chapter title "Take the Red Pill"?
(a) Cartesians.
(b) Tibetan Buddhists.
(c) Taoists.
(d) Western Buddhists.

5. The author uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Intertemporal reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddha stated that what emotion has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip" (30)?

2. What object does the author use as a metaphor for the feelings that connect one’s conscious mind and one’s thoughts?

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

4. The author states that repeated studies have shown that the brain reacts similarly to physical pain and what other element?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 225 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample