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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. We can learn calming by recognition, acceptance, ________________, looking deeply and insight.
(a) Embracing.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Intelligence.

2. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?
(a) Focusing on Right Thinking.
(b) Watching the behavior of others.
(c) Preventing unwholesome seeds and returning them, finding ways to water and nourish the wholesome seeds that have already risen.
(d) Acting appropriately.

3. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Joy.
(d) Lust.

4. When we appreciate what, we can find conditions for happiness that are already available?
(a) Our belongings.
(b) Our friends.
(c) Our homes.
(d) Our senses.

5. Hanh suggests reframing the four Noble Truths, replacing "cessation" with what?
(a) Well-being.
(b) Ending.
(c) Stopping.
(d) Beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is active concentration?

2. What are the Three Doors of Liberation, opened by the Three Dharma Seals?

3. We are always giving our attention to something, and it often does what?

4. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?

5. Right thinking leads to what?

(see the answer key)

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