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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Abhidharma, The Higher Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are devas?
(a) Gods.
(b) Lay people.
(c) Artisans.
(d) Sacred singers.

2. The Buddha is the author of _____ books and treatises.
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Zero.

3. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Water.
(b) Iron.
(c) Gold.
(d) Gas.

4. When he ascended to heaven after performing the miracle, under which tree did he sit to do his teaching?
(a) The Coral Tree.
(b) The Liquid Amber Tree.
(c) The Bodhi Tree.
(d) The Karma Tree.

5. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.
(a) Japanese Zen.
(b) Tibetan.
(c) Tantric.
(d) Theraveda.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

2. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.

3. The Mahayana view of the universe is that, ultimately, only the _____ is real.

4. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.

5. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.

(see the answer key)

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