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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. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?
(a) Usually.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

2. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?
(a) Encourages it.
(b) Strengthens it.
(c) Ends it.
(d) Eases it.

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

4. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?
(a) The fourth.
(b) The first.
(c) The second.
(d) The third.

5. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?
(a) Forget about our own perceptions.
(b) Ignore perceptions.
(c) Accept our perceptions as true.
(d) Know the source of our perceptions and see them deeply.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are suffering and joy both impermanent?

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

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

4. What is the third turning?

5. At what age could Buddha do what he wanted "without going against the path," or practice the "action of non-action," stage of realization that must take place from within?

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