Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The word sutra literally means _____.
(a) Thread.
(b) Vapor.
(c) River.
(d) Conduit.
2. Craving is understood to be the crystallization of _____.
(a) Detachment.
(b) Disintegration.
(c) Attachment.
(d) Communicationt.
3. Samsara is known as the circle of _____.
(a) Life.
(b) Success.
(c) Conditions.
(d) Rebirth.
4. East Asian Buddhism has coexisted with Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and more recently but less happily, _____.
(a) Communism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Fascism.
5. One of the noble truths regarding the origin of suffering is the _____ existence.
(a) Hatred for.
(b) Thirst for.
(c) Chain reaction of.
(d) Denial of.
Short Answer Questions
1. Edward Conze pointed out that it took over two thousand years and a couple of Western converts to provide Buddhism with a _____.
2. The author's aim in writing the book was to act as a _____ for the principles of Buddhism.
3. The various Indo-Aryan dialects, the vernacular of Buddha's time, are known as _____.
4. The Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and South-East Asia is called _____ Buddhism.
5. One of the ten rules of training for a monk involves refraining from sleeping _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the Nikayas/Agamas?
2. How does the author compare Buddha and the four truths to modern medicine?
3. How is food addressed in the Vinaya?
4. How does the author feel he acts as a spokesman for Buddhism?
5. Why does the author say that he wrote this book on Buddhism?
6. What does the author say about satya in relation to a Buddhist creed?
7. According to the author, what does the term 'Buddhism' refer to?
8. How is bodhi characterized?
9. What effect did the meeting of Buddha Dipamkara have on Sumedha?
10. Why did the Buddha possibly refuse to give categorical answers to the ten undetermined questions?
|
This section contains 671 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
