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

2. Hanh suggests reframing the four Noble Truths, replacing "cessation" with what?
(a) Stopping.
(b) Well-being.
(c) Beginning.
(d) Ending.

3. How many months of mindfulness and enjoying the present moment brings real happiness, according to Hahn?
(a) One to three months.
(b) Nine to twelve months.
(c) Six to nine months.
(d) Three to six months.

4. 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.
(a) The Right Thinking.
(b) The Right Path.
(c) The Right Action.
(d) The Right View.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.

2. We need only to understand what about the other person?

3. Buddha suggests we replace unwholesome thoughts how?

4. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"

5. Another reminder, "Hello, habit energy," reminds us to do what?

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