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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the third truth?
(a) The cessation of creating suffering by thinking about what we are doing.
(b) The cessation of creating suffering by stopping what we are doing.
(c) The cessation of creating suffering by changing what we are doing.
(d) The cessation of creating suffering by ignoring what we are doing.

3. Buddha taught of _______________, where our ideas and concepts are extinguished.
(a) Karma.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Dharma.
(d) Sutra.

4. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.
(a) Samantha.
(b) Shamatha.
(c) Sithartha.
(d) Shamhara.

5. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?
(a) Viactin and vicara.
(b) Visceral and vein.
(c) Vitarka and vichara.
(d) Vishnu and victorian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?

3. Mindful breathing helps us find what?

4. Right speech is based on what?

5. What is the Seventh Miracle of Mindfulness?

(see the answer key)

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