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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. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?
(a) A quartz ball.
(b) A soapstone vase.
(c) An ivory talisman.
(d) A bronze statue.

2. The book looks at what is _____ in the three schools of Buddhist thought.
(a) Separate.
(b) Modern.
(c) Common.
(d) Extreme.

3. 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 Dharma heaven.
(d) The Pali wheel.

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

5. The followers of Sarvastivada Abhidaharma argue that nirvana should be regarded as _____.
(a) Real.
(b) False.
(c) A defilement.
(d) A creed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Arhats are the names of Buddhist _____.

3. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.

4. _____ is an ancient language closely related to Sanskrit.

5. Samsara is known as the circle of _____.

(see the answer key)

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