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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sarvastivada school's first condition requires what?
(a) Someone or some thing.
(b) Development.
(c) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(d) Consistent and continuous practice.

2. What is the first of the Five Faculties?
(a) Faith in something reliable.
(b) Mindfulness.
(c) Insight or wisdom.
(d) Diligence.

3. We will see layers of causes and conditions, and can now stop ingesting the nutriments causing our suffering by practicing what as a guide?
(a) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Speech, and Right Livelihood.
(b) Right Livelihood, Mindfulness, Right Thinking, and Right View.
(c) Right Concentration, Right View, Right Livelihood and Right Action.
(d) Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood, with Mindfulness Training.

4. The first of the five mindfulness trainings is what?
(a) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(b) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(c) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(d) Giving and offering joy and love to others.

5. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?
(a) The Truths, Seals, and Sangha.
(b) The Dharma, Sangha, and Seals.
(c) The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
(d) The Buddha, the Truths, and the Seals.

6. What is the third of the five mindfulness trainings?
(a) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(b) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(c) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(d) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.

7. What is the second of the Five Faculties?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Faith in something reliable.
(c) Insight or wisdom.
(d) Mindfulness.

8. Looking beyond signs means what?
(a) Not looking toward fate.
(b) Looking to Buddha for advice.
(c) Making one's own decisions.
(d) Losing fear of losing specific manifestations.

9. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?
(a) Find paradise.
(b) Generate the energy in ourselves to be in paradise.
(c) Accept the present.
(d) Understand paradise.

10. The third condition requires what?
(a) Development.
(b) Consistent and continuous practice.
(c) Someone or some thing.
(d) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.

11. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

12. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
(b) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(c) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.
(d) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.

13. Energy is the result of what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Feeling meaning in our lives.

14. Practicing _________________ transforms our habit energies and recognizes the sameness of everything and everyone.
(a) Equanimity.
(b) Contrasts.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Dynamics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?

2. Our true home, and paradise, are where?

3. Does impermanence cause suffering?

4. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?

5. What is signlessness?

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