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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. The practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.
(a) Wheel of Karma.
(b) Seat of Awakening.
(c) Cloud of Dharma.
(d) Line of Soma.

2. The word bodhi means _____.
(a) Saint.
(b) Wanderer.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Awakening.

3. The Brahmajala Sutta is a discourse on the ____.
(a) Supreme net.
(b) Abhidharma.
(c) Karmic wheel.
(d) Total being.

4. The father of the Madhyamaka was thought to have influenced the philosopher _____.
(a) Kant.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Nietszche.
(d) Rilke.

5. Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who was the son of the emperor _____.
(a) Asoka.
(b) Bhikkhu.
(c) Agama.
(d) Gautama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word duhkha mean?

2. The sravaka in the Mahayana tradition is a _____.

3. A _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.

4. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.

5. The term sramana means _____.

(see the answer key)

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