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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second turning we encourage ourselves to do what?
(a) Accept. understand, decide.
(b) Learn, reflect and practice.
(c) Ignore, accept, and understand.
(d) Listen, speak, communicate.

2. Another reminder, "Hello, habit energy," reminds us to do what?
(a) Forget our habits.
(b) Find moments to contemplate and be mindful, and acknowledge our habitual thinking and acting.
(c) Change our habits.
(d) Improve our habits.

3. What example of being present and mindful does the author use, which gives the work merit?
(a) Taking care of a family.
(b) Volunteering our time.
(c) Washing dishes.
(d) Feeding animals.

4. What is the second Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) To understand the present.
(b) To be present.
(c) To make others present.
(d) To make a present.

5. What does the Fourth Mindfulness Training describe?
(a) The affirmation to speak truthfully and non-judgmentally, not cause division and discord, and resolve all conflicts.
(b) Transforming our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(c) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(d) Forgetting our suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is life span an illusion?

2. The Buddha said, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake _______ ."

3. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.

4. What is active concentration?

5. We are always giving our attention to something, and it often does what?

(see the answer key)

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