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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?
(a) Meditation and patience.
(b) Courage and strength.
(c) Patience and self-control.
(d) Courage and mindfulness.

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

4. Our habit energies bring about what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Joy.
(d) Damage.

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

6. What is the Third Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) To make others present.
(b) To be present.
(c) To nourish yourself.
(d) To nourish others.

7. Right speech is based on what?
(a) Right action.
(b) Right concentration.
(c) Right thinking.
(d) Right believing.

8. 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 fourth.
(c) The third.
(d) The second.

9. What is the second turning?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Realization.

10. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Find others to talk to.
(c) Write down his thoughts.
(d) Find ways to express it in words.

11. Hanh suggests what to remind us to use right speech on the telephone?
(a) A phrase.
(b) A poem.
(c) A gatha.
(d) A dance.

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

13. What must we not do to the words of Buddha?
(a) Mispronounce them.
(b) Turn them into doctrine or ideology.
(c) Forget them.
(d) Sing them.

14. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.
(a) The Right Thinking.
(b) The Right Path.
(c) The Right Action.
(d) The Right View.

15. Right Action is related to Right Livelihood, or what?
(a) Earning a living that consumes your life.
(b) Forms of entertainment that are not destructive.
(c) Earning a living that is not the focus of your life.
(d) Earning a living in non-destructive ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

2. What is the second Miracle of Mindfulness?

3. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?

4. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?

5. Is concentration to ignore suffering?

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