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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 self is characterized as _____ in the early Upanisads.
(a) Creative.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Ungraspable.

2. What are devas?
(a) Lay people.
(b) Gods.
(c) Sacred singers.
(d) Artisans.

3. When he ascended to heaven after performing the miracle, under which tree did he sit to do his teaching?
(a) The Liquid Amber Tree.
(b) The Coral Tree.
(c) The Karma Tree.
(d) The Bodhi Tree.

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Pain.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Belief.
(d) Impatience.

5. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.
(a) Content.
(b) Derivation.
(c) Context.
(d) Form.

Short Answer Questions

1. Abhidharma captures the very essence of dharma, which means that its sound can almost operate as a _____.

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

3. The sravaka in the Mahayana tradition is a _____.

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

5. Meditation is the cultivation of _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the sense of self spring from delusion?

2. What did the Buddha say of the beginning of samsara?

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

4. What happens as the path of the bodhisattva progresses?

5. What is dependent arising?

6. How is world contraction described according to the Abhidharma?

7. How are the lower and higher realms of existence different from each other in Buddhism?

8. What is the Buddhist view of faith on the cognitive and effective modes?

9. What is causal connectedness?

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

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