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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 word trsna means _____.
(a) Conduit.
(b) Thirst.
(c) God.
(d) Soul.

2. According to the author, Buddhism is typically seen as a history of _____ Theravada Buddhism.
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Elitist.
(c) Common.
(d) Ascetic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?

2. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.

3. Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes called _____ Buddhism.

4. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.

5. The three types of suffering are pain, change, and _____.

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