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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Evolutionary.
(c) Personal.
(d) Darwinian.

2. What disorder does the author say makes it difficult for him to meditate?
(a) Autism.
(b) Attention deficit disorder.
(c) Clinical depression.
(d) Asperger's syndrome.

3. In what state did the author attend his very first silent meditation retreat?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) California.
(d) Washington.

4. What do psychologists call the network in the brain that is active when people are not doing anything in particular?
(a) The default mode network.
(b) The aggregate self.
(c) Rational distortion network.
(d) The temporal lobe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many parts belong to the Path that "deeply committed Buddhists are supposed to tread" (48)?

2. What adjective does the author apply to the phenomenon of road rage?

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

4. How did the author feel when his meditation teacher told him that his frustration with meditation was a good sign?

5. 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?

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