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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddha suggests we replace unwholesome thoughts how?
(a) By thinking of only wholesome thoughts.
(b) By asking Buddha to remove the unwholesome thoughts.
(c) By relaxing.
(d) By living in a wholesome environment with those who practice mindful living.

2. What is the first of the Five Faculties?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Mindfulness.
(c) Faith in something reliable.
(d) Insight or wisdom.

3. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?
(a) Visceral and vein.
(b) Vishnu and victorian.
(c) Vitarka and vichara.
(d) Viactin and vicara.

4. Conscious breathing is an important link between what?
(a) Body and soul.
(b) Ourselves and others.
(c) Mind and body.
(d) Mind and beliefs.

5. When we recognize suffering and look deeply into it, we are practicing what?
(a) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
(b) Right Diligence, Right Action, Right Thoughtfulness, and Right View.
(c) Right Concentration, Right Contraction, Right Mindfulness, and Right Compassion.
(d) Right Thinking, Right Thoughtfulness, Right Compassion, and Right Concentration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?

2. What is the second of the Five Faculties?

3. What example of being present and mindful does the author use, which gives the work merit?

4. Finding a way to earn a living that does not conflict with love and compassion can do what?

5. Right livelihood is what?

(see the answer key)

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