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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Four Truths, The Disease, the Cause, the Cure, the Medicine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor _____.
(a) Bhikkhu.
(b) Agama.
(c) Asoka.
(d) Gautama.

2. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.
(a) Oration.
(b) Community.
(c) Text.
(d) Discipline.

3. The religious tradition of Buddhism, at the time of the writing of the book, was followed by over _____ people.
(a) 200 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 2 billion.
(d) 100 million.

4. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.
(a) Anthropomorphism.
(b) Secularism
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Cosmology.

5. The word sutra literally means _____.
(a) Conduit.
(b) Vapor.
(c) Thread.
(d) River.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Theravada tradition is classified by the author as _____.

2. How many days after the Bodhisattva was born did his mother die?

3. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.

4. At the writing of the book, the author taught introductory courses on Buddhism at a _____.

5. The word bodhi means _____.

(see the answer key)

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