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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.
(a) Concrete.
(b) Creative.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Ungraspable.

2. Meditation is the cultivation of _____.
(a) Sleep.
(b) Dependent arising.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Concentration.

3. The Brahmajala Sutta is a discourse on the ____.
(a) Total being.
(b) Karmic wheel.
(c) Abhidharma.
(d) Supreme net.

4. The linking of different lives into a causal series is understood as a particular function of _____.
(a) Auditory phenomena.
(b) Mental phenomena.
(c) Physical phenomena.
(d) Externally-caused phenomena.

5. One of the basic critiques of self in Buddhism that implies a constant that Buddhism believes is not constant is _____.
(a) Language.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Emotions.

6. Earlier texts state that the universe as a whole comprises a vast number of _____.
(a) World-spheres.
(b) Celestial time warps.
(c) Worm holes.
(d) Stargates.

7. The father of the Madhyamaka was thought to have influenced the philosopher _____.
(a) Rilke.
(b) Nietszche.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Kant.

8. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Sleepiness.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Satiation.

9. In a sutta in the Pali canon, the Buddha is said to have thirty-two _____.
(a) Times in samsara.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Dreams of Abhidharma.
(d) Marks.

10. The lam rim in _____ Buddhism is called the gradual path.
(a) Chinese.
(b) Tibetan.
(c) Sri Lankan.
(d) Indian.

11. A _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.
(a) Lost angel.
(b) Hungry ghost.
(c) Happy human.
(d) Martyr.

12. The four _____ are from the realm of the Supreme Gods.
(a) Contented Gods.
(b) Gods who Delight in Creation.
(c) Yama Gods.
(d) Great Brahmas.

13. The bodhisattva turns away from samsara as a place of _____.
(a) Refuge.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Denial.
(d) Suffering.

14. The sravaka in the Mahayana tradition is a _____.
(a) King.
(b) Fallen monk.
(c) Lay person.
(d) Disciple.

15. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.
(a) City centers.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Non-Buddhist shrines.
(d) Sacrificial altars.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____ is the beginning of the Buddhist path.

2. When he ascended to heaven after performing the miracle, under which tree did he sit to do his teaching?

3. The Buddha of early texts may have been critical of Brahmanical ritual due to the involvement of _____ in these rituals.

4. Gandharvas are celestial _____.

5. The great theme of the Perfection of Wisdom is _____.

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