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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. What must we not do to the words of Buddha?
(a) Mispronounce them.
(b) Sing them.
(c) Turn them into doctrine or ideology.
(d) Forget them.

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

4. Another misunderstanding is that our suffering is caused by ________________.
(a) Craving.
(b) Love.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Sin.

5. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?
(a) Courage and strength.
(b) Patience and self-control.
(c) Courage and mindfulness.
(d) Meditation and patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?

2. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?

3. What is the second turning?

4. It is vital to keep our bodies, hearts and minds open to truth rather than what?

5. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.

(see the answer key)

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