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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. The Bodhisattva's mother dreamed of a _____ carrying a lotus on the night he was conceived.
(a) Blue monkey.
(b) Great warrior.
(c) White elephant.
(d) Saint.

2. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.
(a) Tantric.
(b) Japanese Zen.
(c) Theraveda.
(d) Tibetan.

3. The Bodhisattva was conceived on the _____ night of Asadha, or July.
(a) Longest.
(b) Darkest.
(c) Full moon.
(d) Fourth.

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

5. The Nikayama/Agama are collections of sutras or _____.
(a) Rituals.
(b) Discourses.
(c) Canons.
(d) Disputes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.

2. The Sangha is a community of _____.

3. The three types of suffering are pain, change, and _____.

4. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?

5. The religious tradition of Buddhism, at the time of the writing of the book, was followed by over _____ people.

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