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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 bodhi means _____.
(a) Wanderer.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Saint.

2. The Buddha is the author of _____ books and treatises.
(a) Thirty-nine.
(b) One.
(c) Zero.
(d) Ten.

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

4. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.
(a) Vedic sacrifice.
(b) Communial recitation.
(c) Fire ritual.
(d) Silent meditation.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?

2. The three types of suffering are pain, change, and _____.

3. Tibetan 'Vehicle of the Diamond Thunderbolt' is also known as _____ Buddhism.

4. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.

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

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