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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Fire.
(b) Space.
(c) Soma.
(d) Clouds.

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Piety.
(b) Oblation.
(c) Sensual desire.
(d) Dogma.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Sleep.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Sleepiness.
(d) Satiation.

12. Who is the father of the Madhyamaka or middle school?
(a) Gautama.
(b) Asoka.
(c) Abhidharma.
(d) Nagarjuna.

13. Skandhas are _____ of physical and mental events.
(a) Emotional espressions.
(b) Aggregates.
(c) Denial.
(d) Singularities.

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

15. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Sand.
(b) Earth.
(c) Wood.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the five hindrances is _____.

2. In terms of karma, one's state of mind is important and constitutes a _____.

3. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.

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

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

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