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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Vinaya contains _____ for the corporate acts of the monastic collective.
(a) Presentations.
(b) Regulations.
(c) Historical perspective.
(d) Allegories.

4. Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Western.
(b) Southern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Northern.

5. Asoka, the great _____ king, was thought to have been consecrated 218 years after the death of the Buddha.
(a) Mauryan.
(b) Brahmin.
(c) Bihar.
(d) Hellenist.

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

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

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

9. The religious tradition of Buddhism, at the time of the writing of the book, was followed by over _____ people.
(a) 200 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 2 billion.

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

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

12. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from eating _____.
(a) After midday.
(b) Before sunrise.
(c) On Sunday.
(d) During a full moon.

13. The Bodhisattva's mother dreamed of a _____ carrying a lotus on the night he was conceived.
(a) Great warrior.
(b) White elephant.
(c) Saint.
(d) Blue monkey.

14. Vinaya is the word Buddhists use for _____.
(a) Discipline.
(b) Oration.
(c) Text.
(d) Community.

15. What did W.C. Peppe find when he was digging on his estate in India?
(a) An ivory talisman.
(b) A bronze statue.
(c) A quartz ball.
(d) A soapstone vase.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are stupas?

2. The river that flows through the area where the Buddha gathered a following is called _____.

3. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.

4. The word bodhi means _____.

5. The term sramana means _____.

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