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

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

3. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.
(a) Separate.
(b) Alone.
(c) Intertwined.
(d) Unique.

4. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) The Buddha.
(b) God.
(c) Yourself.
(d) Your parent.

5. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?
(a) The "bad" we ingest.
(b) The "good" we ingest.
(c) The nutriments.
(d) The "goods" we ingest.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is vital to keep our bodies, hearts and minds open to truth rather than what?

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

3. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?

4. Are any views the absolute truth?

5. Our habit energies bring about what?

(see the answer key)

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