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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. Gandharvas are celestial _____.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Actors.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Musicians.

2. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.
(a) Har Dayal.
(b) Siddhartha Gautama.
(c) Piprahwa Sakya.
(d) Walpola Rahula.

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

4. The religious tradition of Buddhism, at the time of the writing of the book, was followed by over _____ people.
(a) 2 billion.
(b) 200 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 20 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nagas are mythical _____.

2. Where was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?

3. The dhyanas are levels of _____.

4. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.

5. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.

(see the answer key)

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