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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Fourth Mindfulness Training describe?
(a) Forgetting our suffering.
(b) The affirmation to speak truthfully and non-judgmentally, not cause division and discord, and resolve all conflicts.
(c) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(d) Transforming our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.

2. Impermanence and nonself are _____________.
(a) Different.
(b) The same.
(c) Unique.
(d) Unusual.

3. Holiness is within us when?
(a) We arrive at nirvana.
(b) We die.
(c) We live in harmony.
(d) We are born.

4. The Buddha said, "The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already _________________."
(a) Ignoring it.
(b) Passing your suffering on to others.
(c) On the path of release from it.
(d) Gaining more suffering.

5. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?
(a) Mindfulness.
(b) Faith in something reliable.
(c) Insight or wisdom.
(d) Diligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a paramita?

2. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

3. What is the second of the Five Faculties?

4. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?

5. How must one use suffering?

(see the answer key)

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