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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 river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) The Tigris.
(c) The Krishna.
(d) The Ganges.

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

3. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.
(a) Sanskrit.
(b) Prakrit.
(c) Pali.
(d) Taisho.

4. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Attitude.
(b) Aversion.
(c) Dispersion.
(d) Conversion.

5. The book looks at what is _____ in the three schools of Buddhist thought.
(a) Extreme.
(b) Modern.
(c) Separate.
(d) Common.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after the Bodhisattva was born did his mother die?

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

3. The Bodhisattva was conceived on the _____ night of Asadha, or July.

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

5. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?

(see the answer key)

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