This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, Taoism, The Old Master, | Chapter V, Taoism, The Three Meanings of Tao, | Chapter V, Taoism, Three Approaches to Power and the Taoisms That Follow,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is more or less the same in all forms of Buddhism?
(a) The theme of a crossing from the sufferings of life to the wisdom of enlightenment.
(b) The use of elaborate hand gestures to concentrate on prayers.
(c) The rejection of any kind of musical instrument.
(d) The idea that enlightenment is impossible to attain.

2. What is one way Jnana yoga suggests one can distinguish Self from one's lesser physical being?
(a) To participate in seances
(b) To contemplate one's navel
(c) To think of the physical personal in the third person
(d) To study animals

3. What is the Zen koan?
(a) Sitting in meditation for long hours
(b) The elaborate tea ceremony with its slow and graceful movements
(c) Private consultation with a master
(d) Problems like the classic "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

4. What was transformed into the diamond scepter of Buddhism?
(a) Converting sounds into holy formulas
(b) The thunderbolt of Indra
(c) Mandalas which offer visual icons
(d) The temporal and spiritual authority of the Dalai Lama

5. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?
(a) Only philosophers can possess that information.
(b) Only one individual per lifetime has this knowledge.
(c) Only the oldest gurus understand these things.
(d) All humans already posses these things but until a certain point they remain hidden.