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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from wearing _____.
(a) Cloaks.
(b) Belts.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Hats.

2. How many days after the Bodhisattva was born did his mother die?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

3. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
(a) Communism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Christianity.

4. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.
(a) Brahmin.
(b) Bihar.
(c) Mauryan.
(d) Hellenist.

5. The history of Buddhism stretches over _____ years.
(a) 700.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,500.

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

7. The term sramana means _____.
(a) One who strives.
(b) One who sits.
(c) One who eats fruit.
(d) One who breathes life.

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

9. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Luxemberg.
(d) France.

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

11. What does the word buddha mean?
(a) One who has opened his heart.
(b) One who has dreamed reality.
(c) One who has awakened.
(d) One who has eaten of the fruit.

12. Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Western.

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

14. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Minority monastic.
(b) Secular uprising.
(c) Iconoclastic.
(d) Secret underground.

15. The Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.
(a) Least resistance.
(b) Purification.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Highest insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nikayama/Agama are collections of sutras or _____.

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

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

4. Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor _____.

5. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.

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