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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 7 is entitled "The Mental Modules That Run Your" what?
(a) Day.
(b) Machine.
(c) Life.
(d) Mechanism.

2. The author states that he understands if the reader sees the words "formlessness" and "emptiness" and thinks of which two other words?
(a) Unflinching and rigorous.
(b) Gloomy and doomed.
(c) Bleak and stark.
(d) Crazy and depressing.

3. What type of plant does the author now recognize as beautiful after his meditation retreat?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Raspberries.
(c) Dandelions.
(d) Plantains.

4. 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?
(a) The Dalai Lama and Bob Ross.
(b) The Dalai Lama and Mahatma Gandhi.
(c) The Dalai Lama and Mister Rogers.
(d) Mister Rogers and Bob Ross.

5. What sensation does the author feel at the same time he hears a bird singing during his meditation epiphany?
(a) He feels a caterpillar crawling on his leg.
(b) His jaw is loosening.
(c) His foot is tingling.
(d) His ear is ringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3 of Buddhism is True?

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

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

4. What is the English translation of the word moha within the group of three poisons named in Buddhist texts?

5. The author states that neither kind of module in the chocolate anecdote was more what than another?

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