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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, No Self, Personal Continuity and Dependent Arising.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Bodhisattva's mother dreamed of a _____ carrying a lotus on the night he was conceived.
(a) Blue monkey.
(b) Great warrior.
(c) Saint.
(d) White elephant.

2. The word bodhi means _____.
(a) Wanderer.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Saint.

3. The five aggregates of _____ are suffering.
(a) Repeating.
(b) Repealing.
(c) Throwing.
(d) Grasping.

4. One of a monk's four basic resources is medicine made of _____.
(a) Masticated birch leaves.
(b) Fermented urine.
(c) The skin of frogs.
(d) Boiled tree bark.

5. The followers of Sarvastivada Abhidaharma argue that nirvana should be regarded as _____.
(a) A creed.
(b) A defilement.
(c) Real.
(d) False.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from wearing _____.

2. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.

3. The self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.

4. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from eating _____.

5. Death is simply a _____ of events.

(see the answer key)

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