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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Our habit energies bring about what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Joy.
(d) Damage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the third truth?

3. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?

4. How many months of mindfulness and enjoying the present moment brings real happiness, according to Hahn?

5. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?

(see the answer key)

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