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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. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Find others to talk to.
(c) Write down his thoughts.
(d) Find ways to express it in words.

2. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?
(a) Watching the behavior of others.
(b) Preventing unwholesome seeds and returning them, finding ways to water and nourish the wholesome seeds that have already risen.
(c) Acting appropriately.
(d) Focusing on Right Thinking.

3. Are suffering and joy both impermanent?
(a) Rarely.
(b) No.
(c) Usually.
(d) Yes.

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

5. Mindful breathing and meditation can help us with what?
(a) Compassionate thinking.
(b) Compassionate listening.
(c) Compassionate acting.
(d) Compassionate speaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Sixth Miracle of Mindfulness?

2. Recognition of peace and joy, that well-being is possible, is which turning?

3. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

4. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?

5. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

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