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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eighty-one types of dharma are _____.
(a) Conditioned.
(b) Reversed.
(c) Broken.
(d) Opened.

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

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

5. Meditation is the cultivation of _____.
(a) Concentration.
(b) Dependent arising.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The great theme of the Perfection of Wisdom is _____.

3. All Buddhism knows the story of the ascetic, _____.

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is dependent arising?

2. What attitudes do the Mahayana sutras display toward the bodhisattva?

3. What is causal connectedness?

4. What does Nagasena tell the king about the self?

5. What miracle did the Buddha perform after his awakening?

6. Why was vegetarianism not an explicit tenet of early Buddhism? What questions did this bring up?

7. What is the wheel of becoming?

8. How is faith compared to a gem and a stream in Buddhism?

9. What is access concentration in meditation?

10. What components, according to Buddhist thought, comprise a world-sphere?

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