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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.
(a) Sancturary.
(b) Master.
(c) Creed.
(d) Bible.

2. The term sramana means _____.
(a) One who breathes life.
(b) One who strives.
(c) One who eats fruit.
(d) One who sits.

3. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) The Ganges.
(c) The Krishna.
(d) The Tigris.

4. The Sangha is a community of _____.
(a) Lay men.
(b) Ordained monks.
(c) Lay women.
(d) Noblemen.

5. Mahayana Buddhism is classified by the author as _____.
(a) Fragmented.
(b) Strict.
(c) Diverse.
(d) Evangelistic.

6. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.
(a) Hatred for.
(b) Chain reaction of.
(c) Thirst for.
(d) Denial of.

7. One of the three fundamental defilements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Delusion.
(b) Consent.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Dissent.

8. According the the author, what lies at the heart of Buddhism is _____.
(a) Brahma.
(b) India.
(c) Karma.
(d) Dharma.

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

10. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from attending _____.
(a) Group meals.
(b) Entertainments.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Processions.

11. What are stupas?
(a) Indian writings.
(b) Indian saints.
(c) Indian prayer rites.
(d) Indian burial mounds.

12. Some three months after the death of the Buddha, 500 arhats took part in a _____.
(a) Fire ritual.
(b) Communial recitation.
(c) Silent meditation.
(d) Vedic sacrifice.

13. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?
(a) The Pali wheel.
(b) The karma wheel.
(c) The Tusita heaven.
(d) The Dharma heaven.

14. The author's aim in writing the book was to act as a _____ for the principles of Buddhism.
(a) Commentator.
(b) Renouncer.
(c) Spokesman.
(d) Monk.

15. Sthaviras is a Buddhist term that refers to ______________.
(a) Novices.
(b) Elders.
(c) Boddhis.
(d) Commoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.

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

3. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.

4. The Vinaya contains _____ for the corporate acts of the monastic collective.

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

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