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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. Tibetan 'Vehicle of the Diamond Thunderbolt' is also known as _____ Buddhism.
(a) Dialectic.
(b) Prehistoric.
(c) Tantric.
(d) Modern.

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

3. How old is Buddhism?
(a) Five hundred years.
(b) A thousand years.
(c) Ten thousand years.
(d) Two and a half millennia.

4. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.
(a) Theraveda.
(b) Japanese Zen.
(c) Tibetan.
(d) Tantric.

5. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) The Tigris.
(c) The Krishna.
(d) The Ganges.

Short Answer Questions

1. The word sutra literally means _____.

2. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.

3. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.

4. What does the word buddha mean?

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

(see the answer key)

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