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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 fourth nutriment?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Right Speaking.
(d) Real food.

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

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

4. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

5. What does nonself say?
(a) Nothing is connecte to anything else.
(b) Things are not connected to beings.
(c) Everything is connected with everything else.
(d) No one is connected to anyone else.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Our perceptions are affected by what?

3. What is the third turning?

4. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.

5. Buddha taught the Eightfold Path until when?

(see the answer key)

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