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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word buddha mean?
(a) One who has awakened.
(b) One who has eaten of the fruit.
(c) One who has dreamed reality.
(d) One who has opened his heart.

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

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

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

5. The life of the wandering monk assumes sufficient _____ of the surrounding community.
(a) Coherence.
(b) Good will.
(c) Laissez faire.
(d) Coercion.

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

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

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

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

10. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Western.

11. What is the framework which underlies all later Buddhist thought called?
(a) Sramana.
(b) Abhidharma.
(c) Gautama.
(d) Boddhisatva.

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

13. The Bodhisattva was conceived on the _____ night of Asadha, or July.
(a) Darkest.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Full moon.
(d) Longest.

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

15. _____ is an ancient language closely related to Sanskrit.
(a) Pali.
(b) Purdu.
(c) Urdu.
(d) Bali.

Short Answer Questions

1. Becoming a monk requires going forth and _____.

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

3. The Sangha is _____ of monks and nuns.

4. The Tibetan Kanjur and _____ canon were translated between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.

5. Mahayana Buddhism is classified by the author as _____.

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