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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what movie does the first chapter, entitled "Taking the Red Pill," refer?
(a) The Matrix.
(b) Drugstore Cowboy.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Taxi Driver.

3. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with what element?
(a) Hunger and the relief of hunger.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Satiation.
(d) Pleasure and the anticipation of pleasure.

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

5. The author states that what feeling is linked to our modern environmental mismatch?
(a) Painful self-consciousness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Shame.
(d) Rage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT a feeling listed by the author as one that fosters "wars and atrocities" (4)?

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

4. Western Buddhism eliminates all but which of the following traditional Buddhist traditions?

5. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?

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