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

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

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

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

5. A Tathagata teaches that _____ has a beautiful beginning, a beautiful middle, and a beautiful ending.
(a) Sutra.
(b) Vinaya.
(c) Dharma.
(d) Karma.

Short Answer Questions

1. The condition of duhkha implies _____ existence.

2. Where did the Buddha sit twenty-one days after his awakening?

3. Some of the teachings of the Buddha are expressed in conventional terms, and others are expressed in _____ terms.

4. One of the five hindrances is _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did the Buddha do after performing the miracle after his awakening?

7. What is access concentration in meditation?

8. What is dependent arising?

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

10. How is the nature of bad action illustrated in Buddhism?

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