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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 earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.
(a) Siddhartha Gautama.
(b) Walpola Rahula.
(c) Piprahwa Sakya.
(d) Har Dayal.

2. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.
(a) The Krishna.
(b) The Tigris.
(c) The Euphrates.
(d) The Ganges.

3. The word sutra literally means _____.
(a) Conduit.
(b) River.
(c) Thread.
(d) Vapor.

4. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Luxemberg.
(c) Belgium.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.

2. The three defilements are also known as _____.

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

4. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.

5. How many days after the Bodhisattva was born did his mother die?

(see the answer key)

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