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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third truth?
(a) The cessation of creating suffering by ignoring what we are doing.
(b) The cessation of creating suffering by changing what we are doing.
(c) The cessation of creating suffering by thinking about what we are doing.
(d) The cessation of creating suffering by stopping what we are doing.

2. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?
(a) You slander Buddha in past, present and future.
(b) You will die.
(c) You embarrass Buddha and yourself.
(d) Others will become confused.

3. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?
(a) It compares the Wheel of Dharma to the Wheel of Fortune.
(b) Randomly choosing the path one should take.
(c) Slowly help one to understand suffering.
(d) Recognizing suffering and transforming it into "mindfulness, compassion, peace and liberation."

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

5. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) Yourself.
(b) God.
(c) Your parent.
(d) The Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?

2. What is the third turning?

3. What is the second turning?

4. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?

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

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