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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Good conduct is seen in Buddhism as auspicious action or _____.
(a) Faith.
(b) Praise.
(c) Merit.
(d) Speaking.

2. The practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.
(a) Wheel of Karma.
(b) Seat of Awakening.
(c) Line of Soma.
(d) Cloud of Dharma.

3. The classifying and sorting of experiences is called _____.
(a) Placement.
(b) Decision-making.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Skill.

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Belief.
(b) Pain.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Impatience.

5. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.
(a) Coercive.
(b) Collective.
(c) Unreliable.
(d) Monastic.

6. The bodhisattva turns away from samsara as a place of _____.
(a) Refuge.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Denial.
(d) Enlightenment.

7. How long have people been wandering through samsara?
(a) Millenia.
(b) Eons.
(c) Seconds.
(d) Centuries.

8. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.
(a) Context.
(b) Content.
(c) Derivation.
(d) Form.

9. Skandhas are _____ of physical and mental events.
(a) Aggregates.
(b) Denial.
(c) Emotional espressions.
(d) Singularities.

10. As a system of thought, Abhidharma is to be contrasted with the system of _____ of the Buddha.
(a) Karma.
(b) Samsara.
(c) Soma.
(d) Sutras.

11. In terms of karma, one's state of mind is important and constitutes a _____.
(a) False promise.
(b) Dharma.
(c) Sutra.
(d) Real deed.

12. In the Mahayana tradition, sutras set out the stages of the _____.
(a) Bodhisattva path.
(b) Planes of dharma.
(c) Levels of consciousness.
(d) Karmic wheel.

13. The subject of the monk Nagasena's story to the king is a _____.
(a) Chariot.
(b) Hut.
(c) Camel.
(d) Dog.

14. The linking of different lives into a causal series is understood as a particular function of _____.
(a) Mental phenomena.
(b) Physical phenomena.
(c) Auditory phenomena.
(d) Externally-caused phenomena.

15. Some Budhdists believe that the idea of self is something conditioned by ____.
(a) Success.
(b) Greed.
(c) Continuity.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are devas?

2. The self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.

3. Flowers, incense, and lamps are _____ in modern Buddhism.

4. A Tathagata teaches that _____ has a beautiful beginning, a beautiful middle, and a beautiful ending.

5. The dhyanas are levels of _____.

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