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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Buddha sit twenty-one days after his awakening?
(a) The House of Jewels.
(b) The House of Dharma.
(c) The House of Candles.
(d) The House of Karma.

2. The repository manuals related to the sutras are called the _____.
(a) Matras.
(b) Sastras.
(c) Mantras.
(d) Shastas.

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

4. The Milindapanha records the meeting of a Buddhist monk and the local _____ king, Milinda or Menander.
(a) Greco-Roman.
(b) Albanian.
(c) Bactrian Greek.
(d) Byzantine.

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

6. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Copper.
(b) Humanity.
(c) The soul.
(d) Air.

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

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

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

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

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

12. All Buddhism knows the story of the ascetic, _____.
(a) Pali.
(b) Kenju.
(c) Megha.
(d) Sutta.

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

14. The sravaka in the Mahayana tradition is a _____.
(a) Lay person.
(b) Disciple.
(c) Fallen monk.
(d) King.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the father of the Madhyamaka or middle school?

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

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

4. In the Mahayana tradition, sutras set out the stages of the _____.

5. The Buddha of early texts may have been critical of Brahmanical ritual due to the involvement of _____ in these rituals.

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