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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?
(a) Geology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Forensics.
(d) Physics.

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

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

4. 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) Morpheus.
(c) Altoo.
(d) Hagar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author name as the two people who would be on the highest end of the spectrum as far as ease of meditation goes?

2. Whom does the author name as being on the lowest end of the spectrum in relation to how easy it will be for a person to pick up meditation?

3. 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?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 3 of Buddhism is True?

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