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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should we treat our suffering?
(a) With distractions.
(b) With hatred.
(c) With patience.
(d) With love and kindness.

2. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?
(a) Visceral and vein.
(b) Vishnu and victorian.
(c) Vitarka and vichara.
(d) Viactin and vicara.

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

4. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Patience.
(c) The twelve turnings of the wheel of Dharma.
(d) Mindfulness.

5. The Fourth Noble Truth is recognizing that the Eightfold Path of Right View, Thinking, Speech, Action, Livelihood, Diligence, Mindfulness and Concentration can do what?
(a) Lead us to confusion.
(b) Guide us down the wrong path.
(c) Lead us out of suffering.
(d) Lead us astray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.

2. At what age could Buddha do what he wanted "without going against the path," or practice the "action of non-action," stage of realization that must take place from within?

3. What example of being present and mindful does the author use, which gives the work merit?

4. In the first stage of the Third Noble Truth, of what are we not aware?

5. We can learn calming by recognition, acceptance, ________________, looking deeply and insight.

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