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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 Visuddhimagga is the Path of ____.
(a) Least resistance.
(b) Purification.
(c) Highest insight.
(d) Dependence.

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

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

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

8. One of a monk's four basic resources is lodging _____.
(a) At the foot of a tree.
(b) At the bend in the river.
(c) In a lay person's house.
(d) In a cave.

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

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

11. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from wearing _____.
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Belts.
(c) Cloaks.
(d) Hats.

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

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

14. The earliest Buddhist sources state that the future Buddha was born with the name _____.
(a) Siddhartha Gautama.
(b) Walpola Rahula.
(c) Har Dayal.
(d) Piprahwa Sakya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The word bodhi means _____.

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

3. The matrkas are a summary of _____ lists of significant points of Buddha's teaching.

4. The religious tradition of Buddhism, at the time of the writing of the book, was followed by over _____ people.

5. Tibetan 'Vehicle of the Diamond Thunderbolt' is also known as _____ Buddhism.

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