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

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

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

4. Hanh feels we need to be mindful of what?
(a) Our actions.
(b) Our words.
(c) Our well-being and happiness.
(d) Our thoughts.

5. Another misunderstanding is that our suffering is caused by ________________.
(a) Love.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Craving.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does impermanence cause suffering?

2. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?

3. What does Hanh suggest doing to our habit energies?

4. What must we realize about everything?

5. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?

(see the answer key)

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