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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) Speaking.
(b) Faith.
(c) Praise.
(d) Merit.

2. Flowers, incense, and lamps are _____ in modern Buddhism.
(a) Bribes.
(b) Discards.
(c) Offerings.
(d) Distractions.

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

4. 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) Wheel of Karma.
(d) Cloud of Dharma.

5. Buddhist devotional and ritual acts are generally seen as having a _____ quality.
(a) Exclusive.
(b) Protective.
(c) Derisive.
(d) Evangelical.

6. Though the precise form of the earliest Buddhist devotions is unclear, it is know that they revolved around the worship of _____.
(a) Samsaras.
(b) Suttas.
(c) Stupas.
(d) Skandhas.

7. A _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.
(a) Happy human.
(b) Martyr.
(c) Lost angel.
(d) Hungry ghost.

8. To understand the duhkha is precisely to reach the _____ of the world.
(a) Limits.
(b) Importance.
(c) Destinations.
(d) Actions.

9. Impermanence was regarded by the Buddha as _____.
(a) Release.
(b) Painful.
(c) Abhidharma.
(d) Nirvana.

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

11. The moment of attaining one of the paths and fruits of stream-attainment is called _____.
(a) Vipaka.
(b) Jhana.
(c) Kusala.
(d) Ahetuka.

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

13. Nagas are mythical _____.
(a) Serpents.
(b) Renouncers.
(c) Guardians.
(d) Flying lions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mahayana Lankavatara Sutra explicitly argues against _____.

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

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

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.

5. To whom did the Buddha teach dharma after he performed the miracle after his awakening?

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