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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?
(a) It compares the Wheel of Dharma to the Wheel of Fortune.
(b) Randomly choosing the path one should take.
(c) Slowly help one to understand suffering.
(d) Recognizing suffering and transforming it into "mindfulness, compassion, peace and liberation."

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

3. What must we realize about everything?
(a) It is empty of a separate self.
(b) It has a separate self.
(c) It is part of the self.
(d) It is often a part of the self.

4. Right Speech is speaking how?
(a) Truthfully, no matter how painful it may be.
(b) Truthfully, not with a forked tongue, not cruelly or slanderously and not exaggeration.
(c) Compassionately, in a way not to hurt others.
(d) Quietly and infrequently.

5. While Dharma is compassion, understanding and love, to realize it we need a _____________, or community and elements which support our practice.
(a) Sanskrit.
(b) Syria.
(c) Sangia.
(d) Sangha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How must one use suffering?

2. What is the second of the five mindfulness trainings?

3. Are any views the absolute truth?

4. The third Mindfulness training is about what?

5. We need to learn to speak only with what?

(see the answer key)

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