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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. We need to learn to speak only with what?
(a) Patience and understanding.
(b) Fear and suffering.
(c) Quiet and calmness.
(d) Love and calmness.

2. Mindful breathing and meditation can help us with what?
(a) Compassionate speaking.
(b) Compassionate thinking.
(c) Compassionate acting.
(d) Compassionate listening.

3. Buddhism is a practice to help what?
(a) Eliminate wrong view.
(b) End suffering.
(c) Believers get to heaven.
(d) Make people happy.

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

5. What is the Sixth Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) Transformation of our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(b) Believing.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Forgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Right thinking leads to what?

2. What is the Third Miracle of Mindfulness?

3. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?

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

5. "Bodhichitta" is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hahn suggest we do about our habit energies?

2. How should one speak the truth?

3. What is the practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings?

4. What leads to the path of Right Action?

5. What is active concentration?

6. What is suffering?

7. What comes with right diligence and mindfulness training?

8. What does Buddha think of perception?

9. What is the Fourth Noble Truth?

10. Why do we suffer?

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