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

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

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

4. Impermanence was regarded by the Buddha as _____.
(a) Release.
(b) Painful.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Abhidharma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Milindapanha records the meeting of a Buddhist monk and the local _____ king, Milinda or Menander.

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

3. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.

4. Buddhist devotional and ritual acts are generally seen as having a _____ quality.

5. The subject of the monk Nagasena's story to the king is a _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the legend of Megha?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is stilling the mind an integral goal of Buddhist meditation?

10. Why does the boddhisattva turn away from samsara and yet turn back to the world?

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