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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sangha is _____ of monks and nuns.
(a) An order.
(b) A prison.
(c) A holy book.
(d) A ritual.

2. The oldest portion of the Vedas is called the _____.
(a) Yajurveda.
(b) Atharvaveda.
(c) Samaveda.
(d) Rg Veda.

3. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from false _____.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Hope.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Speech.

4. The word bodhi means _____.
(a) Wanderer.
(b) Saint.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Sleeping.

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

6. Becoming a monk requires going forth and _____.
(a) Confession.
(b) Ordination.
(c) Ritual sacrifice.
(d) Purification.

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

8. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?
(a) A soapstone vase.
(b) A quartz ball.
(c) A bronze statue.
(d) An ivory talisman.

9. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?
(a) Cremation.
(b) Mummufication.
(c) Embalming.
(d) Air sacrifice.

10. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from attending _____.
(a) Funerals.
(b) Group meals.
(c) Entertainments.
(d) Processions.

11. Tibetan 'Vehicle of the Diamond Thunderbolt' is also known as _____ Buddhism.
(a) Prehistoric.
(b) Modern.
(c) Dialectic.
(d) Tantric.

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

13. The Buddha is the author of _____ books and treatises.
(a) Ten.
(b) Zero.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) One.

14. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?
(a) The Pali wheel.
(b) The karma wheel.
(c) The Tusita heaven.
(d) The Dharma heaven.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.

3. The three defilements are also known as _____.

4. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from _____.

5. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.

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