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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?
(a) The Truths, Seals, and Sangha.
(b) The Dharma, Sangha, and Seals.
(c) The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
(d) The Buddha, the Truths, and the Seals.

2. What does form include?
(a) Our body and five sense organs.
(b) Our body.
(c) Our five senses.
(d) Our emotions.

3. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(b) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(c) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
(d) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.

4. Emptiness must be _____________, not just as philosophy.
(a) Practiced.
(b) Forgotten.
(c) Remembered.
(d) Memorized.

5. Why is life span an illusion?
(a) No one's life span is the same.
(b) A human life span is longer.
(c) No one knows his or her life span.
(d) We have never been born and we never die.

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

7. Our anger or despair is connected to what?
(a) Consistent and continuous practice.
(b) Development.
(c) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(d) Someone or some thing.

8. What must we realize about everything?
(a) It has a separate self.
(b) It is part of the self.
(c) It is often a part of the self.
(d) It is empty of a separate self.

9. What is signlessness?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Signs are deception and illusion.
(d) Feelings of loss.

10. Each element of the Noble Eightfold Path is contained where?
(a) In categories.
(b) In small groups.
(c) Within the others.
(d) Individually.

11. While Dharma is compassion, understanding and love, to realize it we need a _____________, or community and elements which support our practice.
(a) Syria.
(b) Sangha.
(c) Sangia.
(d) Sanskrit.

12. Impermanence and nonself are _____________.
(a) Unusual.
(b) Different.
(c) Unique.
(d) The same.

13. Finding a way to earn a living that does not conflict with love and compassion can do what?
(a) Either bring pain or fear.
(b) Bring peace and quiet.
(c) Either bring joy or suffering.
(d) Bring joy and peace.

14. Investigation and allowing things to reveal themselves expands what?
(a) Our boundaries.
(b) Our possibilities.
(c) Our joy.
(d) Our peace.

15. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
(a) Cherish what is around and inside us.
(b) Not care about those things around us.
(c) Forget the importance of those around us.
(d) Ignore suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Incorrect perceptions are conditioned by the afflictions in us of what?

2. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?

3. Nirvana is what?

4. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?

5. The third condition requires what?

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