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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Buddhist Path, The Way of Calm and Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.
(a) Text.
(b) Oration.
(c) Community.
(d) Discipline.

2. 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) Sancturary.
(c) Master.
(d) Bible.

3. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.
(a) Tenjur.
(b) Dharma.
(c) Pali.
(d) Tripitaka.

4. What are devas?
(a) Gods.
(b) Lay people.
(c) Artisans.
(d) Sacred singers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.

3. Skandhas are _____ of physical and mental events.

4. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

5. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.

(see the answer key)

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