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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Abhidharma, The Higher Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from eating _____.
(a) Before sunrise.
(b) During a full moon.
(c) After midday.
(d) On Sunday.

2. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from taking _____.
(a) Money from the community.
(b) Water from the ground.
(c) What is not given.
(d) Baths.

3. Much of Buddhist thought is not so much concerned with walking the eightfold path as with _____ the eightfold path.
(a) Avoiding.
(b) Destroying.
(c) Running.
(d) Finding.

4. Mahayana Buddhism is classified by the author as _____.
(a) Evangelistic.
(b) Diverse.
(c) Strict.
(d) Fragmented.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Death is simply a _____ of events.

2. Abhidharma captures the very essence of dharma, which means that its sound can almost operate as a _____.

3. An _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.

4. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.

5. Samsara is _____.

(see the answer key)

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