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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. Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor _____.
(a) Gautama.
(b) Agama.
(c) Asoka.
(d) Bhikkhu.

2. The Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.
(a) Highest insight.
(b) Purification.
(c) Least resistance.
(d) Dependence.

3. The Nikayama/Agama are collections of sutras or _____.
(a) Canons.
(b) Disputes.
(c) Discourses.
(d) Rituals.

4. Earlier texts state that the universe as a whole comprises a vast number of _____.
(a) Stargates.
(b) Celestial time warps.
(c) World-spheres.
(d) Worm holes.

5. After his awakening, the Buddha was thought to still have an attachment to the _____ of awakening.
(a) Tree.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Sound.
(d) Seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.

2. A _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.

3. The southern continent of Jambudvipa is known as the continent of the _____ tree.

4. There are _____ Nikayas.

5. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.

(see the answer key)

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