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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. The word trsna means _____.
(a) Conduit.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Soul.
(d) God.

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

3. The Sangha is a community of _____.
(a) Ordained monks.
(b) Lay women.
(c) Lay men.
(d) Noblemen.

4. Where was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?
(a) Into a mound.
(b) Under his house.
(c) Into a well.
(d) Under his stables.

5. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.
(a) Crossing the ocean of existence.
(b) Eating the fruit of knowledge.
(c) Reading from written scripture.
(d) Sacrificial dance on the full moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book looks at what is _____ in the three schools of Buddhist thought.

2. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.

3. Mahayana Buddhism is classified by the author as _____.

4. The public concern of Buddhism was living by _____, not doctrinal conformity.

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

(see the answer key)

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