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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 10 is entitled "Encounters With the" what?
(a) Empty.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Universe.
(d) Formless.

3. What is the title of Chapter 3 of Buddhism is True?
(a) Nirvana in a Nutshell.
(b) When Are Feelings Illusions.
(c) Your CEO is MIA.
(d) Like, Wow, Everything is One.

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

5. For what purpose does the author use open Chapter 10 with a quote from Samadhiraja Sutra?
(a) To add credibility to his account of Buddhist truths.
(b) To demonstrate his cultural awareness.
(c) To present a counterargument for his own views.
(d) To give a famous example related to the chapter's focus.

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. 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)?

3. Buddha argues that for an aggregate to constitute an aspect of a self, it must be what two things?

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

5. Though the author admits that there are paradoxes within Buddhism, he says that there are also paradoxes within which branch of science?

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