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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Evolving Traditions of Buddhism, South, East, North and West.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term sramana means _____.
(a) One who eats fruit.
(b) One who strives.
(c) One who sits.
(d) One who breathes life.

2. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from taking _____.
(a) Baths.
(b) What is not given.
(c) Money from the community.
(d) Water from the ground.

3. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.
(a) Brahmin.
(b) Bihar.
(c) Hellenist.
(d) Mauryan.

4. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?
(a) An ivory talisman.
(b) A soapstone vase.
(c) A quartz ball.
(d) A bronze statue.

5. Where did the Buddha sit twenty-one days after his awakening?
(a) The House of Candles.
(b) The House of Jewels.
(c) The House of Dharma.
(d) The House of Karma.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Mahayana tradition, sutras set out the stages of the _____.

2. To the early Upanisads, the ultimate self is identified with the underlying ground of all reality known as _____.

3. The word trsna means _____.

4. _____ is the beginning of the Buddhist path.

5. The Bodhisattva's mother dreamed of a _____ carrying a lotus on the night he was conceived.

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