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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Abhidharma, The Higher Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from taking _____.
(a) Baths.
(b) What is not given.
(c) Water from the ground.
(d) Money from the community.

2. An _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.
(a) Animal.
(b) Astral traveler.
(c) Angel.
(d) Argonaut.

3. Samsara is _____.
(a) Heaven.
(b) Death.
(c) The round of rebirth.
(d) Chakra light source.

4. The self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.
(a) Creative.
(b) Ungraspable.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Concrete.

5. To understand the duhkha is precisely to reach the _____ of the world.
(a) Destinations.
(b) Importance.
(c) Limits.
(d) Actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. The southern continent of Jambudvipa is known as the continent of the _____ tree.

2. Tibetan 'Vehicle of the Diamond Thunderbolt' is also known as _____ Buddhism.

3. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.

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

5. Becoming a monk requires going forth and _____.

(see the answer key)

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