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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.
(a) Regret.
(b) Karma.
(c) Self-conscousness.
(d) Self-loathing.

2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Water.
(b) Gas.
(c) Iron.
(d) Gold.

3. The repository manuals related to the sutras are called the _____.
(a) Mantras.
(b) Shastas.
(c) Sastras.
(d) Matras.

4. The great theme of the Perfection of Wisdom is _____.
(a) Gladness.
(b) Leaving.
(c) Striving.
(d) Emptiness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The linking of different lives into a causal series is understood as a particular function of _____.

2. Some Budhdists believe that the idea of self is something conditioned by ____.

3. Samsara is _____.

4. The dhyanas are levels of _____.

5. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.

Short Essay Questions

1. What components, according to Buddhist thought, comprise a world-sphere?

2. What is dependent arising?

3. How is faith compared to a gem and a stream in Buddhism?

4. What does Nagasena tell the king about the self?

5. Why does the boddhisattva turn away from samsara and yet turn back to the world?

6. How are the thirty-one levels of existence classified? Who resides in these realms?

7. What attitudes do the Mahayana sutras display toward the bodhisattva?

8. What is the legend of Megha?

9. What is the wheel of becoming?

10. What are the five precepts of the lay followers in Buddhism?

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