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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the third turning?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Realization.

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

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) Focusing on one object, ignoring everything else.
(d) We accept some of what comes our way.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?

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

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

4. Does impermanence cause suffering?

5. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?

(see the answer key)

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