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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. "_______________ is at the heart of Buddha's teachings."
(a) Right Action.
(b) Right Diligence.
(c) Right Concentration.
(d) Right Mindfulness.

2. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Wholesome or unwholesome.
(b) Weak seeds.
(c) Many seeds.
(d) Few seed.

3. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) Nightfall.
(b) He was tired of sitting.
(c) Someone had come to save him.
(d) He understood how to alleviate suffering.

4. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.
(a) Unique.
(b) Separate.
(c) Intertwined.
(d) Alone.

5. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?
(a) Transform our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(b) Help us to forget suffering.
(c) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(d) Identify our feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hanh feels we need to be mindful of what?

2. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.

3. Buddha claimed to have gone to the end of the path of suffering and gained what?

4. Right Speech is speaking how?

5. "Bodhichitta" is what?

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