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

2. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Wholesome or unwholesome.
(b) Weak seeds.
(c) Few seed.
(d) Many seeds.

3. Impermanence and nonself are _____________.
(a) Unique.
(b) The same.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Different.

4. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

5. What is the Sixth Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) Believing.
(b) Transformation of our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Forgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is concentration to ignore suffering?

2. What is Smriti?

3. Buddha said, "Where there is perception there is _________________."

4. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?

5. We are always giving our attention to something, and it often does what?

(see the answer key)

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