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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. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.
(a) Brahmin.
(b) Hellenist.
(c) Mauryan.
(d) Bihar.

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

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

4. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.
(a) Sancturary.
(b) Master.
(c) Bible.
(d) Creed.

5. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.
(a) Sacrificial dance on the full moon.
(b) Reading from written scripture.
(c) Eating the fruit of knowledge.
(d) Crossing the ocean of existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.

2. The word bodhi means _____.

3. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.

4. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.

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

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