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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. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.
(a) Creed.
(b) Master.
(c) Sancturary.
(d) Bible.

2. When was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1898.

3. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Secular uprising.
(b) Iconoclastic.
(c) Secret underground.
(d) Minority monastic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a Pali version of the Nikayama/Agama and a _____ translation contained in the Tripitaka.

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

3. Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes called _____ Buddhism.

4. The aspect of change that makes the world a place of suffering is _____.

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

(see the answer key)

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