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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While mindfully breathing, what does the author suggest be done?
(a) A place of refuge should be created.
(b) Our suffering should be transformed.
(c) Suffering should be forgotten.
(d) Feelings should be identified.

2. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Trash.
(c) The flesh of our children.
(d) Life.

3. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
(a) Forget the importance of those around us.
(b) Ignore suffering.
(c) Not care about those things around us.
(d) Cherish what is around and inside us.

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

5. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.
(a) Partially.
(b) Fully.
(c) Almost completely.
(d) Slightly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hanh feels we need to be mindful of what?

2. What is the opposite of mindfulness?

3. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?

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

5. What is the second Miracle of Mindfulness?

(see the answer key)

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