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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?
(a) No.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Usually.
(d) Yes.

3. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"
(a) To remind us we are wrong.
(b) To remind us to question ourselves.
(c) To remind us to release thinking and be in the present moment.
(d) To remind us to never be too sure.

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

5. 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?
(a) Sixty.
(b) One hundred twenty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) One hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.

2. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

3. Buddhism is a practice to help what?

4. The Buddha said, "The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already _________________."

5. In the second turning we encourage ourselves to do what?

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