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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. After his awakening, the Buddha was thought to still have an attachment to the _____ of awakening.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Sound.
(c) Seat.
(d) Tree.

2. Buddhist devotional and ritual acts are generally seen as having a _____ quality.
(a) Evangelical.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Protective.
(d) Exclusive.

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

4. Flowers, incense, and lamps are _____ in modern Buddhism.
(a) Distractions.
(b) Bribes.
(c) Discards.
(d) Offerings.

5. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Oblation.
(b) Sensual desire.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Piety.

Short Answer Questions

1. The practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.

2. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.

3. One of the basic critiques of self in Buddhism that implies a constant that Buddhism believes is not constant is _____.

4. An _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.

5. Gandharvas are celestial _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What two things does abhidharma refer to in Buddhist tradition?

2. What miracle did the Buddha perform after his awakening?

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

4. What is the legend of Megha?

5. What is bhavanga?

6. How does the sense of self spring from delusion?

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

8. What happens as the path of the bodhisattva progresses?

9. What is the wheel of becoming?

10. How is world contraction described according to the Abhidharma?

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