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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. We can learn calming by recognition, acceptance, ________________, looking deeply and insight.
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Embracing.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Introspection.

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

3. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Escape.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Safety.

4. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?
(a) Your work.
(b) The constant state of agitation we are in.
(c) Your daily routines.
(d) Your understanding.

5. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Find others to talk to.
(b) Write down his thoughts.
(c) Find ways to express it in words.
(d) Go to sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the second turning?

4. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?

5. What is the fourth nutriment?

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