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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. One of a monk's four basic resources is a robe made of _____.
(a) Sheets of bleached cotton.
(b) Red-dyed wool.
(c) Discarded rags.
(d) Hemp.

2. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Pain.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Greed.
(d) Consternation.

3. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.
(a) Walpola Rahula.
(b) Siddhartha Gautama.
(c) Piprahwa Sakya.
(d) Har Dayal.

4. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

5. The classifying and sorting of experiences is called _____.
(a) Skill.
(b) Decision-making.
(c) Placement.
(d) Recognition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.

2. What are devas?

3. The Sangha is a community of _____.

4. To the early Upanisads, the ultimate self is identified with the underlying ground of all reality known as _____.

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

(see the answer key)

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