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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. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.
(a) Creator God.
(b) Sangha.
(c) Meditative state.
(d) System of practices.

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) Tibetan.
(d) Theraveda.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word duhkha mean?

2. The word bodhi means _____.

3. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?

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

5. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.

(see the answer key)

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