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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the writing of the book, the author taught introductory courses on Buddhism at a _____.
(a) New age research center.
(b) Prep school.
(c) University.
(d) Monastary.

2. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

3. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from handling _____.
(a) Copper and lead.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Cadmium and titanium.
(d) Nickel and iron.

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

5. The five aggregates of _____ are suffering.
(a) Throwing.
(b) Grasping.
(c) Repeating.
(d) Repealing.

6. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.
(a) On luxurious beds.
(b) On the ground.
(c) Elevated above the ground.
(d) On straw.

7. According the the author, what lies at the heart of Buddhism is _____.
(a) India.
(b) Brahma.
(c) Dharma.
(d) Karma.

8. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from _____ which cause heedlessness.
(a) Free will.
(b) Oration.
(c) Ego trips.
(d) Intoxicants.

9. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.
(a) Detachment.
(b) Communicationt.
(c) Disintegration.
(d) Attachment.

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

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

12. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Secularism
(d) Anthropomorphism.

13. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.
(a) Commandments.
(b) Training.
(c) Divination.
(d) Beliefs.

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

15. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.
(a) Sangha.
(b) System of practices.
(c) Creator God.
(d) Meditative state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word duhkha mean?

2. The author's aim in writing the book was to act as a _____ for the principles of Buddhism.

3. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?

4. The word sutra literally means _____.

5. According to the author, Christianity can be explained as a system of _____.

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