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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. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?
(a) A quartz ball.
(b) A bronze statue.
(c) A soapstone vase.
(d) An ivory talisman.

2. What is the framework which underlies all later Buddhist thought called?
(a) Boddhisatva.
(b) Abhidharma.
(c) Gautama.
(d) Sramana.

3. What does the word duhkha mean?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Power.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Control.

4. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
(a) Communism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

5. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.
(a) System of practices.
(b) Sangha.
(c) Creator God.
(d) Meditative state.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.

2. The Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.

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

4. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.

5. The five aggregates of _____ are suffering.

(see the answer key)

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