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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddhism is a practice to help what?
(a) Make people happy.
(b) Believers get to heaven.
(c) End suffering.
(d) Eliminate wrong view.

2. Another misunderstanding is that our suffering is caused by ________________.
(a) Craving.
(b) Love.
(c) Sin.
(d) Buddha.

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

4. Writing is a "deep practice" and should be done knowing our words will do what?
(a) Be forgotten quickly.
(b) Useless.
(c) Be remembered.
(d) Affect other people.

5. What does the Fourth Mindfulness Training describe?
(a) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(b) Transforming our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(c) The affirmation to speak truthfully and non-judgmentally, not cause division and discord, and resolve all conflicts.
(d) Forgetting our suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to look deeply?

2. While mindfully breathing, what does the author suggest be done?

3. Our perceptions are affected by what?

4. The Buddha said, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake _______ ."

5. Are suffering and joy both impermanent?

(see the answer key)

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