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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddha taught of _______________, where our ideas and concepts are extinguished.
(a) Karma.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Sutra.
(d) Dharma.

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

3. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?
(a) Help us to forget suffering.
(b) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(c) Identify our feelings.
(d) Transform our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.

4. What is the second, shila paramita?
(a) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(b) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(c) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(d) Giving and offering joy and love to others.

5. Buddha taught the Eightfold Path until when?
(a) He changed his teaching methods.
(b) He was sixty.
(c) He became ill.
(d) His death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

2. "All suffering is born from ________________."

3. Right Action is related to Right Livelihood, or what?

4. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?

5. What is the first of the Five Faculties?

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