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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When scientists conducted an experiment asking people to choose one of four identical pairs of pantyhose, which one did they most often choose?
(a) The far left pair.
(b) The far right pair.
(c) The second from far left pair.
(d) The second from far right pair.

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

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

4. What experiments are said to have "powerfully demonstrated the capacity of the conscious self to convince itself that it is calling the shots when it is not" (79)?
(a) Split-brain experiments.
(b) Colostrum experiments.
(c) Dual-self experiments.
(d) Corpus callosum experiments.

5. What ratio does the author say he usually experiences throughout a meditation retreat when he mentions that part is bliss and part is difficult?
(a) 1 to 2.
(b) 4 to 1.
(c) 1 to 4.
(d) 2 to 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two drugs does the author say he imagines produce results similar to the feelings he had after a particularly good session of meditation at his first retreat?

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

3. The Buddha stated that what emotion has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip" (30)?

4. The first time the author attended a week-long meditation retreat, he was allowed to speak how many times?

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

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