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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What form of ritual was carried out at the death of the Buddha?
(a) Cremation.
(b) Embalming.
(c) Mummufication.
(d) Air sacrifice.

5. The history of Buddhism stretches over _____ years.
(a) 700.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,500.

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

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

8. The _____ school of Buddhism in the sixth and seventh centuries was suspicious of theoretical formulations regarding the practice of Buddhism.
(a) Tantric.
(b) Theraveda.
(c) Japanese Zen.
(d) Tibetan.

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

10. Buddhism does not involve the belief in a _____.
(a) System of practices.
(b) Meditative state.
(c) Creator God.
(d) Sangha.

11. The scholar Etienne Lamotte was from _____.
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Luxemberg.
(c) Belgium.
(d) France.

12. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.
(a) Commandments.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Training.
(d) Divination.

13. One of the ancient and recurring images in Indian religious discourse is of _____.
(a) Reading from written scripture.
(b) Eating the fruit of knowledge.
(c) Sacrificial dance on the full moon.
(d) Crossing the ocean of existence.

14. The word bodhi means _____.
(a) Saint.
(b) Wanderer.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Awakening.

15. The five aggregates of _____ are suffering.
(a) Repealing.
(b) Grasping.
(c) Throwing.
(d) Repeating.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.

2. At the writing of the book, the author taught introductory courses on Buddhism at a _____.

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

4. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.

5. Where was the Bodhisattva when he considered when and where to be born to teach as the Buddha?

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