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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the English translation of the word anatta?
(a) Peace.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Tranquility.
(d) Not-self.

2. What is the name of the eminent twentieth-century scholar of Buddhism?
(a) Edward Conze.
(b) Aaron Beck.
(c) Jerome Barkow.
(d) Bhikkhu Bodhi.

3. 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) Subliminally.
(b) Undertemporally.
(c) Multilingually.
(d) Subdermally.

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

5. What is the meaning of the term metta?
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Saturation.
(c) Mantra.
(d) Loving kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Buddha's first discourse following his enlightenment?

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

3. What Rolling Stones song does the author say perfectly encapsulates the human condition from the Buddhist point of view?

4. In Hindu thought, "there is the idea that the individual self or soul is actually just a part of what you might call a" (203) what?

5. In what year did the author attend his first silent meditation retreat?

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