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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author concentrates on sustained expositions of Buddhist _____.
(a) Anthropomorphism.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Secularism

2. The Buddha is the author of _____ books and treatises.
(a) Zero.
(b) Thirty-nine.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

3. The Mahayana likely began as a _____ movement.
(a) Iconoclastic.
(b) Minority monastic.
(c) Secular uprising.
(d) Secret underground.

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

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

6. When was W.C. Peppe digging on his estate in India?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1868.

7. The aspect of change that makes the world a place of suffering is _____.
(a) Impermanence.
(b) Suddenness.
(c) Completeness.
(d) Orientation.

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

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

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

11. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from handling _____.
(a) Nickel and iron.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Copper and lead.
(d) Cadmium and titanium.

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

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

14. One of a monk's four basic resources is a robe made of _____.
(a) Discarded rags.
(b) Sheets of bleached cotton.
(c) Red-dyed wool.
(d) Hemp.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _____ is an ancient language closely related to Sanskrit.

3. The Theravada tradition is classified by the author as _____.

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

5. What the Buddha taught is often referred to in the early texts as a system of _____.

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