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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Buddha, The Story of the Awakened One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Secularism
(d) Anthropomorphism.

2. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

3. Where was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?
(a) Into a well.
(b) Under his house.
(c) Under his stables.
(d) Into a mound.

4. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?
(a) Air sacrifice.
(b) Cremation.
(c) Mummufication.
(d) Embalming.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The coming of the _____ into India did not bring political unity, but brought ideology that affected Indian culture.

3. The history of Buddhism stretches over _____ years.

4. Mahayana Buddhism is classified by the author as _____.

5. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.

(see the answer key)

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