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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author presents a scenario wherein someone imagines his or her speech is going to go badly, but it goes fine. What term does the author give to this phenomenon?
(a) A triumph.
(b) A false positive.
(c) A conundrum.
(d) A metta experience.

2. What does the author say is the only thought people have when eyeing a sugar doughnut?
(a) How good it will taste.
(b) How eating it will leave them feeling tired or agitated later.
(c) How eating it will help them relax.
(d) How intensely they will want another one only seconds after eating this one.

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

4. In what year did the author of the book What the Buddah Taught write the work?
(a) 1983.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1973.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddha said that engagement is the product of a what?

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

4. What two points of view does the author use within the narrative of Buddhism is True?

5. The author states that what feeling is linked to our modern environmental mismatch?

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