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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. What does the word duhkha mean?
(a) Power.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Control.
2. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.
(a) Secularism
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Anthropomorphism.
(d) Cosmology.
3. The Theravading Vinaya specifies that the candidate for pravrajya must be old enough to _____.
(a) Measure the stars.
(b) Scare crows away.
(c) Walk a tight rope.
(d) Eat from a bowl.
4. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.
(a) Disintegration.
(b) Detachment.
(c) Communicationt.
(d) Attachment.
5. The subject of the monk Nagasena's story to the king is a _____.
(a) Camel.
(b) Hut.
(c) Chariot.
(d) Dog.
Short Answer Questions
1. One of the five hindrances is _____.
2. What is the framework which underlies all later Buddhist thought called?
3. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
4. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from false _____.
5. One of the five hindrances is _____.
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