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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 active concentration?
(a) We accept some of what comes our way.
(b) Focusing on one object, ignoring everything else.
(c) We accept little of what comes our way.
(d) We accept whatever comes along, dwelling in the present and remaining clear.

2. What does nonself say?
(a) No one is connected to anyone else.
(b) Things are not connected to beings.
(c) Everything is connected with everything else.
(d) Nothing is connecte to anything else.

3. What is the fourth nutriment?
(a) Right Speaking.
(b) Real food.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Meditation.

4. Like the relationship of a plant and the earth, when we take refuge in Buddha, ______________________.
(a) Buddha takes refuge in us.
(b) Buddha remembers us.
(c) Buddha encourages us to take refuge in the self.
(d) Buddha takes pride in us.

5. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
(a) Not care about those things around us.
(b) Cherish what is around and inside us.
(c) Forget the importance of those around us.
(d) Ignore suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

2. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.

3. Right thinking is known as what?

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

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

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