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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The first time the author attended a week-long meditation retreat, he was allowed to speak how many times?
(a) Once.
(b) Three times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Never.

4. On what body process should first-timers focus when meditating?
(a) Bile.
(b) Blood.
(c) Phlegm.
(d) Breath.

5. The author states that natural selection does not want people to be happy, but instead wants them to be what?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Productive.
(d) Tenacious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ratio does the author say he usually experiences throughout a meditation retreat when he mentions that part is bliss and part is difficult?

2. With what Buddhist tradition is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche associated?

3. 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?

4. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?

5. 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)?

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