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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. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.
(a) Karma.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Regret.
(d) Self-conscousness.

2. At the center of a cakra-vada is the great _____.
(a) Gold heart.
(b) World mountain.
(c) Ocean.
(d) Sky god.

3. Samsara is known as the circle of _____.
(a) Life.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Conditions.
(d) Success.

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

5. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.
(a) Non-Buddhist shrines.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Sacrificial altars.
(d) City centers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In terms of karma, one's state of mind is important and constitutes a _____.

2. Death is simply a _____ of events.

3. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

4. What does the word duhkha mean?

5. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.

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