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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, No Self, Personal Continuity and Dependent Arising.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.
(a) Elevated above the ground.
(b) On the ground.
(c) On luxurious beds.
(d) On straw.

2. The life of the wandering monk assumes sufficient _____ of the surrounding community.
(a) Good will.
(b) Laissez faire.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Coherence.

3. There is a Pali version of the Nikayama/Agama and a _____ translation contained in the Tripitaka.
(a) Cambodian.
(b) Sri Lankan.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Tibetan.

4. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?
(a) The Pali wheel.
(b) The karma wheel.
(c) The Dharma heaven.
(d) The Tusita heaven.

5. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.
(a) Meditative state.
(b) Sangha.
(c) System of practices.
(d) Creator God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.

2. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.

3. The self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.

4. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?

5. One of a monk's four basic resources is medicine made of _____.

(see the answer key)

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