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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) Mispronounce them.
(b) Sing them.
(c) Turn them into doctrine or ideology.
(d) Forget them.

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

3. The Buddha said, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake _______ ."
(a) The finger for the moon.
(b) My teaching for pointing.
(c) The moon for the finger.
(d) The pointing of the finger.

4. How many months of mindfulness and enjoying the present moment brings real happiness, according to Hahn?
(a) Nine to twelve months.
(b) Six to nine months.
(c) Three to six months.
(d) One to three months.

5. What is the second turning?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Realization.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

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

3. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?

4. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?

5. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?

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