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Chapter One through Chapter Four

1. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.
(a) Suffer.
(b) Have joy.
(c) Do not suffer.
(d) Are happy.

2. How must one use suffering?
(a) For torture.
(b) For fear.
(c) For sadness.
(d) For growth.

3. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) Yourself.
(b) God.
(c) Your parent.
(d) The Buddha.

4. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) He understood how to alleviate suffering.
(b) Nightfall.
(c) He was tired of sitting.
(d) Someone had come to save him.

5. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Safety.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Escape.

6. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?
(a) Buddha's Way.
(b) Your Way.
(c) The Middle Way.
(d) The Right Way.

7. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?
(a) Slowly help one to understand suffering.
(b) Randomly choosing the path one should take.
(c) Recognizing suffering and transforming it into "mindfulness, compassion, peace and liberation."
(d) It compares the Wheel of Dharma to the Wheel of Fortune.

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