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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing that the author says natural selection "cares about" (3)?
(a) Procreation.
(b) Sustenance.
(c) Survival.
(d) Evolution.

2. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?
(a) Biology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Geology.
(d) Forensics.

3. How many minutes does the author say he spends meditating each morning?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 40 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. What problem does the author say afflicts him when he is trying to work?
(a) A constant hunger.
(b) A short attention span.
(c) A need to move around.
(d) A tendency to daydream.

5. What do psychologists call the network in the brain that is active when people are not doing anything in particular?
(a) The temporal lobe.
(b) Rational distortion network.
(c) The aggregate self.
(d) The default mode network.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2 of Buddhism is True?

2. Buddha argues that for an aggregate to constitute an aspect of a self, it must be what two things?

3. Who is said to have remarked that our faculties of reason are controlled by passions, otherwise known as feelings, according to the author?

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

5. The author states that as times change, so should conclusions and what other element?

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