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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 happened when the author analyzed closely his feelings before his speech at Poptech?
(a) The shame increased.
(b) The fear stayed within practicable limits.
(c) The fear went away.
(d) The anxiety seemed to ebb.

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

3. The Buddha said that engagement is the product of a what?
(a) A shame.
(b) A lust.
(c) A feeling.
(d) A power.

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

5. What do psychologists call the condition of "being stuck" in the natural human cycle of ultimately futile pleasure-seeking?
(a) The great illusion.
(b) The never-ending spiral.
(c) The hamster wheel.
(d) The hedonic treadmill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is the only thought people have when eyeing a sugar doughnut?

2. The word vipassana is generally translated to what English word?

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

4. In what decade were the famous series of experiments conducted by Benjamin Libet?

5. The author states that "coherence of motivation, though a desirable quality in a friend or collaborator, isn't by itself" (82) what?

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