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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____ is the beginning of the Buddhist path.
(a) Faith in the Buddha.
(b) Birth.
(c) Rebirth.
(d) Awakening.

2. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Ill-will.
(b) Warmth.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Volunteerism.

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

4. After his awakening, the Buddha was thought to still have an attachment to the _____ of awakening.
(a) Sound.
(b) Tree.
(c) Seat.
(d) Feeling.

5. The four _____ are from the realm of the Supreme Gods.
(a) Great Brahmas.
(b) Yama Gods.
(c) Gods who Delight in Creation.
(d) Contented Gods.

6. In Buddhism, the truth underlying reality is _____.
(a) Wielding.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Thusness.
(d) Emptiness.

7. Gandharvas are celestial _____.
(a) Musicians.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Actors.

8. The implications when using the word 'I' in a sentence is that it is a _____.
(a) Detachment.
(b) Variable.
(c) Constant.
(d) Derivative.

9. Karma is a being's _____ of body, speech, and mind.
(a) Forced reactions.
(b) Inward expression.
(c) Outward denial.
(d) Intentional actions.

10. The Brahmajala Sutta is a discourse on the ____.
(a) Karmic wheel.
(b) Supreme net.
(c) Abhidharma.
(d) Total being.

11. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Opened.
(b) Broken.
(c) Conditioned.
(d) Reversed.

12. At the center of a cakra-vada is the great _____.
(a) Sky god.
(b) Gold heart.
(c) World mountain.
(d) Ocean.

13. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.
(a) Self-conscousness.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Karma.
(d) Regret.

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

15. A Tathagata teaches that _____ has a beautiful beginning, a beautiful middle, and a beautiful ending.
(a) Sutra.
(b) Karma.
(c) Vinaya.
(d) Dharma.

Short Answer Questions

1. The moment of attaining one of the paths and fruits of stream-attainment is called _____.

2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

3. Atman is the Sanskrit word for self or _____.

4. To the early Upanisads, the ultimate self is identified with the underlying ground of all reality known as _____.

5. One of the basic critiques of self in Buddhism that implies a constant that Buddhism believes is not constant is _____.

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