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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 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) Corpus callosum experiments.
(c) Colostrum experiments.
(d) Split-brain experiments.

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

3. On what body process should first-timers focus when meditating?
(a) Blood.
(b) Phlegm.
(c) Breath.
(d) Bile.

4. 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 metta experience.
(b) A conundrum.
(c) A false positive.
(d) A triumph.

5. In what state did the author attend his very first silent meditation retreat?
(a) California.
(b) Washington.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddah lived and taught how many years ago?

2. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?

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

4. What is the one thing that the author says natural selection "cares about" (3)?

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

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