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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The idea within vipassana meditation is to see the true nature of what?
(a) One's self.
(b) Reality.
(c) Life.
(d) The world.

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

3. What is NOT a feeling listed by the author as one that fosters "wars and atrocities" (4)?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Despair.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Greed.

4. In most people, the left hemisphere of the brain controls what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Affection.
(c) Language.
(d) Decision-making.

5. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?
(a) Aesthetic considerations.
(b) The pleasure associated with the goals should not last forever.
(c) There should be more of a focus on the immediate pleasure than on the way it will soon dissipate.
(d) Achieving the goals should bring pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddha said that engagement is the product of a what?

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

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

4. What emotion does the author say he feels when he is getting ready for a public speaking engagement?

5. 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?

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