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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 bodhisattva turns away from samsara as a place of _____.
(a) Denial.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Refuge.

2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.
(a) Clouds.
(b) Soma.
(c) Fire.
(d) Space.

3. The Milindapanha records the meeting of a Buddhist monk and the local _____ king, Milinda or Menander.
(a) Byzantine.
(b) Greco-Roman.
(c) Albanian.
(d) Bactrian Greek.

4. All Buddhism knows the story of the ascetic, _____.
(a) Sutta.
(b) Pali.
(c) Megha.
(d) Kenju.

5. To the early Upanisads, the ultimate self is identified with the underlying ground of all reality known as _____.
(a) Dharma.
(b) Karma.
(c) Sutta.
(d) Brahman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandharvas are celestial _____.

2. One of the four elements in Buddhism is _____.

3. To understand the duhkha is precisely to reach the _____ of the world.

4. The Buddhist texts call the physical world _____.

5. An _____ is a being from a lower realm of existence in Buddhist cosmology.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is dependent arising?

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

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 attitudes do the Mahayana sutras display toward the bodhisattva?

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

9. What is bhavanga?

10. What is causal connectedness?

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