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

2. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Fear.

3. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?
(a) Fear.
(b) Pain.
(c) Joy.
(d) Sadness.

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

5. What is the opposite of mindfulness?
(a) Thoughtlessness.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Suffering.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

3. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

4. Whatever we think will make us happy can often be what?

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

(see the answer key)

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