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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. Looking beyond signs means what?
(a) Making one's own decisions.
(b) Losing fear of losing specific manifestations.
(c) Not looking toward fate.
(d) Looking to Buddha for advice.

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

3. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?
(a) Your Way.
(b) Buddha's Way.
(c) The Middle Way.
(d) The Right Way.

4. Our habit energies bring about what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Damage.
(c) Joy.
(d) Excitement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first __________ of the nine levels of meditative concentration are called Dhyanas.

2. _____________ come with right diligence and mindfulness training.

3. Right Action is related to Right Livelihood, or what?

4. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?

5. What is active concentration?

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