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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. How old is Buddhism?
(a) Two and a half millennia.
(b) Ten thousand years.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) Five hundred years.

2. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.
(a) Community.
(b) Text.
(c) Oration.
(d) Discipline.

3. The term sramana means _____.
(a) One who strives.
(b) One who sits.
(c) One who breathes life.
(d) One who eats fruit.

4. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?
(a) The karma wheel.
(b) The Tusita heaven.
(c) The Pali wheel.
(d) The Dharma heaven.

5. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Secret underground.
(b) Secular uprising.
(c) Minority monastic.
(d) Iconoclastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, Buddhism is typically seen as a history of _____ Theravada Buddhism.

2. There are _____ Nikayas.

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

4. What are stupas?

5. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.

(see the answer key)

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