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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. What is the fourth nutriment?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Right Speaking.
(c) Real food.
(d) Consciousness.

2. The third Mindfulness training is about what?
(a) Community responsibility.
(b) Ingesting healthy foods.
(c) Sexual responsibility.
(d) Parental responsibilty.

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

4. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.
(a) Do not suffer.
(b) Are happy.
(c) Suffer.
(d) Have joy.

5. What is the most important aspect of Right Diligence?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) Calm.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer 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?

2. The Buddha said, "The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already _________________."

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

4. What is the third truth?

5. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.

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