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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?
(a) The flesh of our children.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Trash.
(d) Life.

2. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?
(a) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(b) Identify our feelings.
(c) Help us to forget suffering.
(d) Transform our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.

3. What is Smriti?
(a) The Sanskrit word for mindfulness.
(b) The Thai word for mindfulness.
(c) The Hindi word for mindfulness.
(d) The Prankrit word for mindfulness.

4. What is active concentration?
(a) We accept whatever comes along, dwelling in the present and remaining clear.
(b) We accept little of what comes our way.
(c) We accept some of what comes our way.
(d) Focusing on one object, ignoring everything else.

5. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?
(a) No.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Usually.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Sixth Miracle of Mindfulness?

2. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.

3. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?

4. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?

5. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

(see the answer key)

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