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

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

3. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Opened.
(b) Conditioned.
(c) Reversed.
(d) Broken.

4. Atman is the Sanskrit word for self or _____.
(a) Here.
(b) Breath.
(c) Light.
(d) Contact.

5. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Pain.
(b) Belief.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Impatience.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the five hindrances is _____.

2. Abhidharma captures the very essence of dharma, which means that its sound can almost operate as a _____.

3. To the early Upanisads, the ultimate self is identified with the underlying ground of all reality known as _____.

4. Good conduct is seen in Buddhism as auspicious action or _____.

5. The Brahmajala Sutta is a discourse on the ____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the Buddha say of the beginning of samsara?

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

4. What is access concentration in meditation?

5. What is causal connectedness?

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

7. What is the legend of Megha?

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

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

10. Why was vegetarianism not an explicit tenet of early Buddhism? What questions did this bring up?

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