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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Smriti?
(a) The Thai word for mindfulness.
(b) The Hindi word for mindfulness.
(c) The Prankrit word for mindfulness.
(d) The Sanskrit word for mindfulness.

2. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?
(a) Get paid what we're worth.
(b) Speak truthfully.
(c) Be promoted.
(d) Take breaks.

3. Hanh recommends a _____________ gatha to remind us to live fully each day, not wasting our day, and being mindful with love and compassion.
(a) Evening.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Morning.
(d) Night.

4. Right Speech is speaking how?
(a) Truthfully, not with a forked tongue, not cruelly or slanderously and not exaggeration.
(b) Quietly and infrequently.
(c) Compassionately, in a way not to hurt others.
(d) Truthfully, no matter how painful it may be.

5. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?
(a) Slowly help one to understand suffering.
(b) Recognizing suffering and transforming it into "mindfulness, compassion, peace and liberation."
(c) It compares the Wheel of Dharma to the Wheel of Fortune.
(d) Randomly choosing the path one should take.

Short Answer Questions

1. When we recognize suffering and look deeply into it, we are practicing what?

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

3. Our habit energies bring about what?

4. Each element of the Noble Eightfold Path is contained where?

5. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?

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