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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Four Truths, The Disease, the Cause, the Cure, the Medicine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Iconoclastic.
(b) Secular uprising.
(c) Minority monastic.
(d) Secret underground.

2. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.
(a) Disintegration.
(b) Detachment.
(c) Communicationt.
(d) Attachment.

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

4. The aspect of change that makes the world a place of suffering is _____.
(a) Suddenness.
(b) Orientation.
(c) Impermanence.
(d) Completeness.

5. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.
(a) Mnemonic.
(b) Tantric.
(c) Kenjonic.
(d) Canonic.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.

2. The word sutra literally means _____.

3. The book looks at what is _____ in the three schools of Buddhist thought.

4. The word bodhi means _____.

5. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.

(see the answer key)

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