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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Find others to talk to.
(b) Find ways to express it in words.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Write down his thoughts.

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

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

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

5. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) Nightfall.
(b) Someone had come to save him.
(c) He was tired of sitting.
(d) He understood how to alleviate suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.

2. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?

3. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?

4. When we appreciate what, we can find conditions for happiness that are already available?

5. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

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