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

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

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

4. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?
(a) Ignore perceptions.
(b) Know the source of our perceptions and see them deeply.
(c) Accept our perceptions as true.
(d) Forget about our own perceptions.

5. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.
(a) The Right Thinking.
(b) The Right Action.
(c) The Right View.
(d) The Right Path.

Short Answer Questions

1. Our perceptions are affected by what?

2. Can Right View be taught?

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

4. At what age could Buddha do what he wanted "without going against the path," or practice the "action of non-action," stage of realization that must take place from within?

5. Buddhism is a practice to help what?

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