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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

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

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

3. Western Buddhism eliminates all but which of the following traditional Buddhist traditions?
(a) Meditation on one's own rotting corpse.
(b) Meditation on the pus within one's own body.
(c) Meditation on feces within one's body.
(d) The use of gongs.

4. Which group of people does the author say especially identified with the film he references within the chapter title "Take the Red Pill"?
(a) Tibetan Buddhists.
(b) Cartesians.
(c) Western Buddhists.
(d) Taoists.

5. The author uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Intertemporal reality.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. When ancient Buddhist writings mention the term sati, what does the word mean in English?

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

3. In what state did the author attend his very first silent meditation retreat?

4. What is NOT an element the author lists as being said by Jesus Christ?

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

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