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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 is NOT listed among the traditional practices of Asian Buddhists not practiced by Western Buddhists?
(a) Belief in reincarnation.
(b) Fixation on bodily fluids during meditative practice.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Belief in a variety of deities.

2. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?
(a) Achieving the goals should bring pleasure.
(b) Aesthetic considerations.
(c) The pleasure associated with the goals should not last forever.
(d) There should be more of a focus on the immediate pleasure than on the way it will soon dissipate.

3. What does the lizard represent at the meditation retreat attended by the author?
(a) Belief.
(b) Oneness.
(c) Awareness.
(d) Loving kindness.

4. Buddha argues that for an aggregate to constitute an aspect of a self, it must be what two things?
(a) Righteous and strong.
(b) Mutable and permanent.
(c) Aesthetically pleasing and quick.
(d) Enduring and permanent.

5. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?
(a) First and second.
(b) Only third.
(c) First and third.
(d) Second and third.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes does the author say he spends meditating each morning?

2. What types of insects were making noise outside of the author's window on the fifth night of his first meditation retreat?

3. The author states that as times change, so should conclusions and what other element?

4. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?

5. Whom does the author name as the two people who would be on the highest end of the spectrum as far as ease of meditation goes?

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