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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. A Tathagata teaches that _____ has a beautiful beginning, a beautiful middle, and a beautiful ending.
(a) Karma.
(b) Vinaya.
(c) Sutra.
(d) Dharma.

2. In a sutta in the Pali canon, the Buddha is said to have thirty-two _____.
(a) Dreams of Abhidharma.
(b) Times in samsara.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Marks.

3. Gandharvas are celestial _____.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Actors.
(d) Dancers.

4. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Broken.
(b) Conditioned.
(c) Opened.
(d) Reversed.

5. Who is the father of the Madhyamaka or middle school?
(a) Asoka.
(b) Nagarjuna.
(c) Abhidharma.
(d) Gautama.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mahayana Lankavatara Sutra explicitly argues against _____.

2. The lam rim in _____ Buddhism is called the gradual path.

3. The linking of different lives into a causal series is understood as a particular function of _____.

4. _____ is the beginning of the Buddhist path.

5. In terms of karma, one's state of mind is important and constitutes a _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is faith compared to a gem and a stream in Buddhism?

2. What does Nagasena tell the king about the self?

3. How is the nature of bad action illustrated in Buddhism?

4. What components, according to Buddhist thought, comprise a world-sphere?

5. How is the term 'self' considered meaningless in Buddhism?

6. Why does the boddhisattva turn away from samsara and yet turn back to the world?

7. What attitudes do the Mahayana sutras display toward the bodhisattva?

8. Why was vegetarianism not an explicit tenet of early Buddhism? What questions did this bring up?

9. What are the five precepts of the lay followers in Buddhism?

10. How does the sense of self spring from delusion?

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