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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 Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Secular uprising.
(b) Iconoclastic.
(c) Minority monastic.
(d) Secret underground.

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

3. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Belief.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Pain.
(d) Impatience.

4. What are devas?
(a) Artisans.
(b) Lay people.
(c) Gods.
(d) Sacred singers.

5. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.
(a) On straw.
(b) Elevated above the ground.
(c) On the ground.
(d) On luxurious beds.

Short Answer Questions

1. A Tathagata teaches that _____ has a beautiful beginning, a beautiful middle, and a beautiful ending.

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

3. The dhyanas are levels of _____.

4. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.

5. One of a monk's four basic resources is a robe made of _____.

(see the answer key)

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