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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) On luxurious beds.
(b) Elevated above the ground.
(c) On straw.
(d) On the ground.

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

3. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Delusion.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Consent.
(d) Dissent.

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

5. The implications when using the word 'I' in a sentence is that it is a _____.
(a) Variable.
(b) Constant.
(c) Detachment.
(d) Derivative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?

2. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from false _____.

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

4. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.

5. There are _____ Nikayas.

(see the answer key)

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