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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Buddhist Path, The Way of Calm and Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Milindapanha records the meeting of a Buddhist monk and the local _____ king, Milinda or Menander.
(a) Bactrian Greek.
(b) Greco-Roman.
(c) Byzantine.
(d) Albanian.

2. The Theravading Vinaya specifies that the candidate for pravrajya must be old enough to _____.
(a) Eat from a bowl.
(b) Scare crows away.
(c) Walk a tight rope.
(d) Measure the stars.

3. Some Budhdists believe that the idea of self is something conditioned by ____.
(a) Love.
(b) Continuity.
(c) Greed.
(d) Success.

4. The Vinaya contains _____ for the corporate acts of the monastic collective.
(a) Regulations.
(b) Historical perspective.
(c) Allegories.
(d) Presentations.

5. The aspect of change that makes the world a place of suffering is _____.
(a) Suddenness.
(b) Orientation.
(c) Completeness.
(d) Impermanence.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.

2. The subject of the monk Nagasena's story to the king is a _____.

3. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.

4. The four _____ are from the realm of the Supreme Gods.

5. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.

(see the answer key)

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