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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first __________ of the nine levels of meditative concentration are called Dhyanas.
(a) The Three Dhyanas.
(b) The Four Dhyanas.
(c) The Five Dhyanas.
(d) The Two Dhyanas.

3. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?
(a) Life.
(b) Trash.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) The flesh of our children.

4. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Few seed.
(b) Weak seeds.
(c) Many seeds.
(d) Wholesome or unwholesome.

5. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?
(a) Encourages it.
(b) Ends it.
(c) Strengthens it.
(d) Eases it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Third Miracle of Mindfulness?

2. What is the fourth nutriment?

3. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?

4. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.

5. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

(see the answer key)

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