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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the author name as being on the lowest end of the spectrum in relation to how easy it will be for a person to pick up meditation?
(a) Bobby Knight.
(b) Russell Westbrook.
(c) Nate Diaz.
(d) John McEnroe.

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

3. What is NOT a feeling listed by the author as one that fosters "wars and atrocities" (4)?
(a) Despair.
(b) Greed.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Hatred.

4. What is the meaning of the term metta?
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Saturation.
(c) Loving kindness.
(d) Mantra.

5. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?
(a) Peace.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Pain.

6. In what decade were the famous series of experiments conducted by Benjamin Libet?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1990s.

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

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

9. What is NOT an element the author lists as being said by Jesus Christ?
(a) I am the love.
(b) I am the life.
(c) I am the way.
(d) I am the truth.

10. In most people, the left hemisphere of the brain controls what?
(a) Decision-making.
(b) Affection.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Language.

11. The Buddah lived and taught how many years ago?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 700.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 2,500.

12. The author uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Intertemporal reality.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Hyperbole.

13. What is NOT one of the five aggregates named by The Buddha when he first split the self into five aggregates?
(a) The physical body.
(b) Mental formations.
(c) Longings.
(d) Feelings.

14. The idea within vipassana meditation is to see the true nature of what?
(a) Reality.
(b) One's self.
(c) Life.
(d) The world.

15. 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?
(a) Cocaine and valium.
(b) LSD and heroin.
(c) Valium and heroin.
(d) LSD and psilocybin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author of the book What the Buddah Taught write the work?

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

3. What is NOT listed among the traditional practices of Asian Buddhists not practiced by Western Buddhists?

4. The author explains that the book Buddhism is True is an attempt to do all but which of the following things?

5. The author states that when the Buddhist techniques work, a person receives not just happiness, but what other element?

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