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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 is the English translation of the word dukkha?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Peace.
(c) Pain.
(d) Kindness.

2. What experiments are said to have "powerfully demonstrated the capacity of the conscious self to convince itself that it is calling the shots when it is not" (79)?
(a) Dual-self experiments.
(b) Split-brain experiments.
(c) Corpus callosum experiments.
(d) Colostrum experiments.

3. What does the acronym in the chapter title of Chapter 6 mean?
(a) Missing in Action.
(b) Not in my backyard.
(c) Laugh Out Loud.
(d) Immaterial.

4. What is NOT listed among the traditional practices of Asian Buddhists not practiced by Western Buddhists?
(a) Fixation on bodily fluids during meditative practice.
(b) Belief in reincarnation.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Belief in a variety of deities.

5. What is the title of Chapter 2 of Buddhism is True?
(a) When Are Feelings Illusions?.
(b) Taking the Red Pill.
(c) The Alleged Nonexistence of Your Self.
(d) Paradoxes of Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?

2. The author states that natural selection does not want people to be happy, but instead wants them to be what?

3. The word vipassana is generally translated to what English word?

4. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?

5. In what year did the author of the book What the Buddah Taught write the work?

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