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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. We need only to understand what about the other person?
(a) He or she is like us.
(b) He or she is also compassionate.
(c) He or she is human.
(d) He or she has suffered for compassion to be born.

2. Right Action means to do what?
(a) The behavior of Buddhists.
(b) The ways that everyone should act.
(c) Everything connected with the body nonviolently and in mindfulness.
(d) Everything connected with the body.

3. Right thinking leads to what?
(a) Right Praying.
(b) Right Activities.
(c) Right Diligence.
(d) Right Intelligence.

4. The fifth Mindfulness training is associated with what?
(a) Ingesting healthy foods.
(b) Sexual responsibility.
(c) What foods to avoid.
(d) Personal responsibility.

5. What is the second turning?
(a) Realization.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Encouragement.
(d) Acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Conscious breathing is an important link between what?

3. Right Speech is speaking how?

4. Speaking each person's individual language, like Bodhisattva, or writing a letter using Right speech, can do what?

5. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?

(see the answer key)

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