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

2. The Sangha is a community of _____.
(a) Ordained monks.
(b) Noblemen.
(c) Lay women.
(d) Lay men.

3. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.
(a) Oration.
(b) Discipline.
(c) Community.
(d) Text.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word buddha mean?

2. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.

3. The Nikayama/Agama are collections of sutras or _____.

4. When was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?

5. The word sutra literally means _____.

(see the answer key)

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