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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 many days after the Bodhisattva was born did his mother die?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

2. The Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.
(a) Least resistance.
(b) Highest insight.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Purification.

3. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.
(a) Hatred for.
(b) Thirst for.
(c) Denial of.
(d) Chain reaction of.

4. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
(a) Fascism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Communism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sangha is a community of _____.

2. There are _____ Nikayas.

3. According to the author, Christianity can be explained as a system of _____.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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