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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. Our perceptions are affected by what?
(a) Everything subjective in our lives, positive and negative.
(b) Our ignorance.
(c) Our own thoughts.
(d) How we have been raised.

2. 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 second.
(b) The third.
(c) The first.
(d) The fourth.

3. 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) It compares the Wheel of Dharma to the Wheel of Fortune.
(c) Randomly choosing the path one should take.
(d) Slowly help one to understand suffering.

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

5. What must we not do to the words of Buddha?
(a) Sing them.
(b) Forget them.
(c) Turn them into doctrine or ideology.
(d) Mispronounce them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recognition of peace and joy, that well-being is possible, is which turning?

2. How must one use suffering?

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

4. How should we treat our suffering?

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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