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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speaking each person's individual language, like Bodhisattva, or writing a letter using Right speech, can do what?
(a) Benefit the receiver.
(b) Benefit sender and receiver.
(c) Benefit the sender.
(d) Benefit no one.

2. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?
(a) Your understanding.
(b) Your daily routines.
(c) Your work.
(d) The constant state of agitation we are in.

3. 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?
(a) One hundred twenty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Sixty.

4. What is the third truth?
(a) The cessation of creating suffering by changing what we are doing.
(b) The cessation of creating suffering by stopping what we are doing.
(c) The cessation of creating suffering by ignoring what we are doing.
(d) The cessation of creating suffering by thinking about what we are doing.

5. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?
(a) No.
(b) Usually.
(c) Yes.
(d) Sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?

2. Hanh suggests what to remind us to use right speech on the telephone?

3. What is the Seventh Miracle of Mindfulness?

4. _____________ come with right diligence and mindfulness training.

5. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?

(see the answer key)

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