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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must we not do to the words of Buddha?
(a) Forget them.
(b) Mispronounce them.
(c) Sing them.
(d) Turn them into doctrine or ideology.

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

3. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) Nightfall.
(b) Someone had come to save him.
(c) He understood how to alleviate suffering.
(d) He was tired of sitting.

4. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) No.

5. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?
(a) The Middle Way.
(b) Your Way.
(c) Buddha's Way.
(d) The Right Way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How should we treat our suffering?

2. The Buddha said, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake _______ ."

3. What is the fourth nutriment?

4. What does Hanh suggest doing to our habit energies?

5. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.

(see the answer key)

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