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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When we appreciate what, we can find conditions for happiness that are already available?
(a) Our homes.
(b) Our belongings.
(c) Our friends.
(d) Our senses.

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

3. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Fear.

4. Buddha said, "Where there is perception there is _________________."
(a) Confusion.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Anger.
(d) Deception.

5. Buddha taught of _______________, where our ideas and concepts are extinguished.
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Karma.
(c) Dharma.
(d) Sutra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?

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

3. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?

4. The Fourth Noble Truth is recognizing that the Eightfold Path of Right View, Thinking, Speech, Action, Livelihood, Diligence, Mindfulness and Concentration can do what?

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

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