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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. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Pain.
(b) Greed.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Consternation.

2. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.
(a) Commandments.
(b) Divination.
(c) Training.
(d) Beliefs.

3. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.
(a) Dharma.
(b) Tripitaka.
(c) Pali.
(d) Tenjur.

4. The Sangha is a community of _____.
(a) Ordained monks.
(b) Lay men.
(c) Noblemen.
(d) Lay women.

5. There are _____ Nikayas.
(a) Ninety-nine.
(b) Four.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Fifty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. The followers of Sarvastivada Abhidaharma argue that nirvana should be regarded as _____.

2. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.

3. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.

4. What is the framework which underlies all later Buddhist thought called?

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

(see the answer key)

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