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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 does the author say is the only thought people have when eyeing a sugar doughnut?
(a) How intensely they will want another one only seconds after eating this one.
(b) How good it will taste.
(c) How eating it will help them relax.
(d) How eating it will leave them feeling tired or agitated later.

2. Which character in the movie referred to in the chapter entitled "Take the Red Pill" realizes that his life has actually been an extended hallucination?
(a) Neo.
(b) Hagar.
(c) Altoo.
(d) Morpheus.

3. In what year did the author of the book What the Buddah Taught write the work?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1959.
(d) 2001.

4. How many parts belong to the Path that "deeply committed Buddhists are supposed to tread" (48)?
(a) Three.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

5. What is NOT one of the five aggregates named by The Buddha when he first split the self into five aggregates?
(a) The physical body.
(b) Longings.
(c) Mental formations.
(d) Feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people does the author say especially identified with the film he references within the chapter title "Take the Red Pill"?

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

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

4. The author states that "coherence of motivation, though a desirable quality in a friend or collaborator, isn't by itself" (82) what?

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

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