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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 three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Greed.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Consternation.
(d) Pain.

2. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.
(a) Regret.
(b) Self-conscousness.
(c) Karma.
(d) Self-loathing.

3. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.
(a) Derivation.
(b) Content.
(c) Context.
(d) Form.

4. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.
(a) Hellenist.
(b) Mauryan.
(c) Brahmin.
(d) Bihar.

5. There are _____ Nikayas.
(a) Ninety-nine.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Buddha is the author of _____ books and treatises.

2. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.

3. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.

4. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.

5. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.

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