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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Sleepiness.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Satiation.
2. To whom did the Buddha teach dharma after he performed the miracle after his awakening?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.
3. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Opened.
(b) Broken.
(c) Reversed.
(d) Conditioned.
4. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Piety.
(b) Oblation.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Sensual desire.
5. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.
(a) Sunrise.
(b) City centers.
(c) Sacrificial altars.
(d) Non-Buddhist shrines.
6. The linking of different lives into a causal series is understood as a particular function of _____.
(a) Physical phenomena.
(b) Auditory phenomena.
(c) Mental phenomena.
(d) Externally-caused phenomena.
7. _____ is the beginning of the Buddhist path.
(a) Faith in the Buddha.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Birth.
(d) Awakening.
8. The term 'abhidharma' means _____ dharma.
(a) Lower.
(b) Higher.
(c) Raining.
(d) Sleeping.
9. In terms of karma, one's state of mind is important and constitutes a _____.
(a) Sutra.
(b) Dharma.
(c) False promise.
(d) Real deed.
10. An _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.
(a) Astral traveler.
(b) Angel.
(c) Argonaut.
(d) Animal.
11. The Mahayana Lankavatara Sutra explicitly argues against _____.
(a) Watching children.
(b) Holding fire ceremonies.
(c) Meat eating.
(d) Running after ghosts.
12. When he ascended to heaven after performing the miracle, under which tree did he sit to do his teaching?
(a) The Coral Tree.
(b) The Liquid Amber Tree.
(c) The Karma Tree.
(d) The Bodhi Tree.
13. Impermanence was regarded by the Buddha as _____.
(a) Release.
(b) Painful.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Abhidharma.
14. After his awakening, the Buddha was thought to still have an attachment to the _____ of awakening.
(a) Tree.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Seat.
(d) Sound.
15. To understand the duhkha is precisely to reach the _____ of the world.
(a) Actions.
(b) Importance.
(c) Destinations.
(d) Limits.
Short Answer Questions
1. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
3. The notion of self is born of _____.
4. _____ are regarded as ultimate bits of matter, which is similar in concept to dharma.
5. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.
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