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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth nutriment?
(a) Real food.
(b) Right Speaking.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Meditation.

2. What is the goal of right Concentration?
(a) A many-pointed mind.
(b) A quiet mind.
(c) A rounded mind.
(d) A one-pointed mind.

3. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?
(a) The "goods" we ingest.
(b) The nutriments.
(c) The "bad" we ingest.
(d) The "good" we ingest.

4. Whatever we think will make us happy can often be what?
(a) Paths to happiness.
(b) Obstacles to happiness.
(c) Makes us happy.
(d) A part of happiness.

5. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?
(a) Life.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) The flesh of our children.
(d) Trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

2. Buddha said, "Where there is perception there is _________________."

3. What is the third turning?

4. Impermanence and nonself are _____________.

5. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

(see the answer key)

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