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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Hanh discourages what in the interest of ourselves and others?
(a) Losing sleep.
(b) Driving while intoxicated.
(c) Drinking of any alcohol.
(d) Smoking.

3. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?
(a) Safety.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Escape.

4. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) God.
(b) Your parent.
(c) Yourself.
(d) The Buddha.

5. "Bodhichitta" is what?
(a) A follower of Buddha.
(b) A Buddhist monk.
(c) A place to meditate.
(d) Our mind of love that motivates mindful living.

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

7. _____________ come with right diligence and mindfulness training.
(a) Joy and ease.
(b) Peace and prosperity.
(c) Calm and quiet.
(d) Love and compassion.

8. What is the goal of right Concentration?
(a) A many-pointed mind.
(b) A quiet mind.
(c) A one-pointed mind.
(d) A rounded mind.

9. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?
(a) Speak truthfully.
(b) Take breaks.
(c) Be promoted.
(d) Get paid what we're worth.

10. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?
(a) The first.
(b) The second.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The third.

11. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Weak seeds.
(b) Few seed.
(c) Many seeds.
(d) Wholesome or unwholesome.

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

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

14. The fifth Mindfulness training is associated with what?
(a) Ingesting healthy foods.
(b) Personal responsibility.
(c) Sexual responsibility.
(d) What foods to avoid.

15. Conscious breathing is an important link between what?
(a) Mind and beliefs.
(b) Body and soul.
(c) Mind and body.
(d) Ourselves and others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Generosity, sharing, cultivating love and kindness, and living simply, taking no more than our share, is what?

2. The third Mindfulness training is about what?

3. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?

4. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?

5. Looking deeply in meditation is important, but what else is fundamental?

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