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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?
(a) Meditation and patience.
(b) Courage and strength.
(c) Courage and mindfulness.
(d) Patience and self-control.

2. How should we treat our suffering?
(a) With distractions.
(b) With patience.
(c) With hatred.
(d) With love and kindness.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the fourth practice of Right Diligence?
(a) Ingesting healthy foods.
(b) Earning a living in non-destructive ways.
(c) Watering and keeping wholesome mental formations.
(d) Sexual responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?

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

3. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?

4. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?

5. In the first stage of the Third Noble Truth, of what are we not aware?

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