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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what object does the author say people should place themselves during meditation?
(a) A cushion.
(b) A mat.
(c) A pillow.
(d) A bare floor.

2. What adverb is used to describe briefly exposing someone to a word or an image, but not long enough for conscious awareness to set in?
(a) Subliminally.
(b) Undertemporally.
(c) Subdermally.
(d) Multilingually.

3. What adjective does the author apply to the phenomenon of road rage?
(a) Crazy.
(b) False.
(c) Silly.
(d) Logical.

4. What kind of benefits does the author describe self-delusion as harboring?
(a) Evolutionary.
(b) Personal.
(c) Darwinian.
(d) Intellectual.

5. In what state did the author attend his very first silent meditation retreat?
(a) Virginia.
(b) California.
(c) Washington.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the book called What the Buddah Taught?

2. What is the English translation of the word dukkha?

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

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

5. The idea within vipassana meditation is to see the true nature of what?

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