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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does the author say he feels when he is getting ready for a public speaking engagement?
(a) Weakness.
(b) Shame.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Pride.

2. What is the title of Chapter 2 of Buddhism is True?
(a) The Alleged Nonexistence of Your Self.
(b) Taking the Red Pill.
(c) Paradoxes of Meditation.
(d) When Are Feelings Illusions?.

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

4. Which group of people does the author say especially identified with the film he references within the chapter title "Take the Red Pill"?
(a) Tibetan Buddhists.
(b) Cartesians.
(c) Taoists.
(d) Western Buddhists.

5. The author explains that the book Buddhism is True is an attempt to do all but which of the following things?
(a) To explain from a scientific standpoint why what lies beyond the door contains more reality than the one people have come to accept.
(b) To show people the door.
(c) To give people some idea of what lies beyond the door.
(d) To point out the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the author apply to the phenomenon of road rage?

2. The author uses the example of his childhood experiences with the Tooth Fairy in order to demonstrate what concept?

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

4. With what Buddhist tradition is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche associated?

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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