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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 practice of the ten perfections constitutes the path of development ending in the tenth level, the _____.
(a) Cloud of Dharma.
(b) Line of Soma.
(c) Seat of Awakening.
(d) Wheel of Karma.

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

3. One of the five hindrances is _____.
(a) Dogma.
(b) Oblation.
(c) Piety.
(d) Sensual desire.

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

5. Who is the father of the Madhyamaka or middle school?
(a) Abhidharma.
(b) Asoka.
(c) Gautama.
(d) Nagarjuna.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the center of a cakra-vada is the great _____.

2. The repository manuals related to the sutras are called the _____.

3. The lam rim in _____ Buddhism is called the gradual path.

4. Earlier texts state that the universe as a whole comprises a vast number of _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is bhavanga?

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

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

7. What is causal connectedness?

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

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

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

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