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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Lust.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Joy.

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

3. Are suffering and joy both impermanent?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Rarely.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

2. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

3. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?

4. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?

5. Hanh suggests reframing the four Noble Truths, replacing "cessation" with what?

(see the answer key)

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