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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Evolving Traditions of Buddhism, South, East, North and West.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Pain.
(c) Consternation.
(d) Greed.

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

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

5. The great theme of the Perfection of Wisdom is _____.
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Leaving.
(c) Striving.
(d) Gladness.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the five hindrances is _____.

2. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from eating _____.

3. After his awakening, the Buddha was thought to still have an attachment to the _____ of awakening.

4. At the center of a cakra-vada is the great _____.

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

(see the answer key)

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