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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Mahayana, The Great Vehicle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddhist devotional and ritual acts are generally seen as having a _____ quality.
(a) Evangelical.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Protective.
(d) Exclusive.

2. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Broken.
(b) Opened.
(c) Conditioned.
(d) Reversed.

3. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.
(a) Tantric.
(b) Canonic.
(c) Kenjonic.
(d) Mnemonic.

4. At the center of a cakra-vada is the great _____.
(a) Gold heart.
(b) World mountain.
(c) Sky god.
(d) Ocean.

5. Meditation is the cultivation of _____.
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Dependent arising.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Concentration.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from wearing _____.

2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

3. The Theravada tradition is classified by the author as _____.

4. The Bodhisattva's mother dreamed of a _____ carrying a lotus on the night he was conceived.

5. What does the word buddha mean?

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