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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) To make a present.
(b) To understand the present.
(c) To be present.
(d) To make others present.

2. Our perceptions are affected by what?
(a) Our ignorance.
(b) Everything subjective in our lives, positive and negative.
(c) How we have been raised.
(d) Our own thoughts.

3. Nirvana is what?
(a) Unusual.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The ground of interbeing.
(d) The first step to paradise.

4. "_______________ is at the heart of Buddha's teachings."
(a) Right Diligence.
(b) Right Mindfulness.
(c) Right Concentration.
(d) Right Action.

5. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?
(a) Strengthens it.
(b) Encourages it.
(c) Ends it.
(d) Eases it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does nonself say?

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

3. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?

4. What is the Seventh Miracle of Mindfulness?

5. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.

(see the answer key)

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