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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author presents a scenario wherein someone imagines his or her speech is going to go badly, but it goes fine. What term does the author give to this phenomenon?
(a) A triumph.
(b) A metta experience.
(c) A false positive.
(d) A conundrum.

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

3. With what Buddhist tradition is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche associated?
(a) The Vippassana Buddhist tradition.
(b) The Zen Buddhist tradition.
(c) The Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
(d) The school of tranquility and serenity.

4. In what year did the author attend his first silent meditation retreat?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2005.

5. The Buddha stated that what emotion has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip" (30)?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pride.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the five aggregates named by The Buddha when he first split the self into five aggregates?

2. How many minutes does the author say he spends meditating each morning?

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

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

5. To what movie does the first chapter, entitled "Taking the Red Pill," refer?

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