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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from _____ which cause heedlessness.
(a) Intoxicants.
(b) Free will.
(c) Ego trips.
(d) Oration.

3. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.
(a) On straw.
(b) Elevated above the ground.
(c) On luxurious beds.
(d) On the ground.

4. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.
(a) Detachment.
(b) Attachment.
(c) Disintegration.
(d) Communicationt.

5. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from _____.
(a) Walking with shoes on.
(b) Eating with utensils.
(c) Harming living creatures.
(d) Eating rice.

6. The book looks at what is _____ in the three schools of Buddhist thought.
(a) Common.
(b) Separate.
(c) Extreme.
(d) Modern.

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

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

9. The three defilements are also known as _____.
(a) Storms.
(b) Fires.
(c) Stars.
(d) Rivers.

10. The tradition of Mahayana Buddhism found in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Western.
(b) Southern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Eastern.

11. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.
(a) Taisho.
(b) Prakrit.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Pali.

12. There is a Pali version of the Nikayama/Agama and a _____ translation contained in the Tripitaka.
(a) Sri Lankan.
(b) Cambodian.
(c) Tibetan.
(d) Chinese.

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

14. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from using _____.
(a) Shampoo.
(b) Skin oils.
(c) A toothbrush.
(d) Perfumes.

15. The oldest portion of the Vedas is called the _____.
(a) Atharvaveda.
(b) Yajurveda.
(c) Rg Veda.
(d) Samaveda.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.

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

3. What does the word duhkha mean?

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

5. The term sramana means _____.

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