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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. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?
(a) Others will become confused.
(b) You will die.
(c) You slander Buddha in past, present and future.
(d) You embarrass Buddha and yourself.

2. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?
(a) Lust.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Joy.

3. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) God.
(b) Your parent.
(c) The Buddha.
(d) Yourself.

4. Our perceptions are affected by what?
(a) How we have been raised.
(b) Our ignorance.
(c) Everything subjective in our lives, positive and negative.
(d) Our own thoughts.

5. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.
(a) Shamhara.
(b) Shamatha.
(c) Sithartha.
(d) Samantha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Our habit energies bring about what?

2. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?

3. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?

4. What is the most important aspect of Right Diligence?

5. The Fourth Noble Truth is recognizing that the Eightfold Path of Right View, Thinking, Speech, Action, Livelihood, Diligence, Mindfulness and Concentration can do what?

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