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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 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) Subliminally.
(c) Undertemporally.
(d) Subdermally.

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 3 of Buddhism is True?
(a) Nirvana in a Nutshell.
(b) Your CEO is MIA.
(c) Like, Wow, Everything is One.
(d) When Are Feelings Illusions.

4. What is the English translation of the title of the Buddhist text called the Satipatthana Sutta?
(a) The Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
(b) The Three Foundations of Mindfulness.
(c) The Two Foundations of Mindfulness.
(d) The Twelve Foundations of Mindfulness.

5. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with what element?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Pleasure and the anticipation of pleasure.
(c) Satiation.
(d) Hunger and the relief of hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author explains that the book Buddhism is True is an attempt to do all but which of the following things?

2. What is the name of the eminent twentieth-century scholar of Buddhism?

3. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?

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

5. On what object does the author say people should place themselves during meditation?

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