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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Samsara is _____.
(a) Chakra light source.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Death.
(d) The round of rebirth.

3. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Water.
(b) Gold.
(c) Gas.
(d) Iron.

4. One of the basic critiques of self in Buddhism that implies a constant that Buddhism believes is not constant is _____.
(a) Eating.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Language.
(d) Emotions.

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

6. The term 'abhidharma' means _____ dharma.
(a) Raining.
(b) Lower.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Higher.

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

8. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Excitement and depression.
(b) Attention deficit.
(c) Dyslexia.
(d) Encouragement.

9. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.
(a) Sacrificial altars.
(b) City centers.
(c) Non-Buddhist shrines.
(d) Sunrise.

10. Meditation is the cultivation of _____.
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Concentration.
(c) Dependent arising.
(d) Sleep.

11. The Mahayana Lankavatara Sutra explicitly argues against _____.
(a) Running after ghosts.
(b) Holding fire ceremonies.
(c) Meat eating.
(d) Watching children.

12. The dhyanas are levels of _____.
(a) Meditation.
(b) Monkdom.
(c) Martyrdom.
(d) Existence.

13. Much of Buddhist thought is not so much concerned with walking the eightfold path as with _____ the eightfold path.
(a) Running.
(b) Avoiding.
(c) Finding.
(d) Destroying.

14. The Mahayana view of the universe is that, ultimately, only the _____ is real.
(a) Soul.
(b) Mind.
(c) Brahma.
(d) Heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Skandhas are _____ of physical and mental events.

2. Karma is a being's _____ of body, speech, and mind.

3. An awareness of ourselves as thinking subjects is called _____.

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

5. The practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.

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