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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. Much of Buddhist thought is not so much concerned with walking the eightfold path as with _____ the eightfold path.
(a) Running.
(b) Destroying.
(c) Avoiding.
(d) Finding.

2. The history of Buddhism stretches over _____ years.
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 700.

3. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Dissent.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Consent.
(d) Delusion.

4. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.
(a) Unreliable.
(b) Collective.
(c) Coercive.
(d) Monastic.

5. The oldest portion of the Vedas is called the _____.
(a) Rg Veda.
(b) Samaveda.
(c) Yajurveda.
(d) Atharvaveda.

Short Answer Questions

1. The practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.

2. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.

3. Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor _____.

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

5. To understand the duhkha is precisely to reach the _____ of the world.

(see the answer key)

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