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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. How old is Buddhism?
(a) Five hundred years.
(b) Two and a half millennia.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) Ten thousand years.

2. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

3. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
(a) Judaism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Communism.

4. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.
(a) Har Dayal.
(b) Piprahwa Sakya.
(c) Siddhartha Gautama.
(d) Walpola Rahula.

5. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.
(a) Hatred for.
(b) Chain reaction of.
(c) Thirst for.
(d) Denial of.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.

2. The word sutra literally means _____.

3. The Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.

4. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.

5. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.

(see the answer key)

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