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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 does the Fourth Mindfulness Training describe?
(a) Forgetting our suffering.
(b) Transforming our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(c) The affirmation to speak truthfully and non-judgmentally, not cause division and discord, and resolve all conflicts.
(d) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.

2. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. 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.
(a) The Right View.
(b) The Right Path.
(c) The Right Action.
(d) The Right Thinking.

4. Right speech is based on what?
(a) Right thinking.
(b) Right concentration.
(c) Right action.
(d) Right believing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Are any views the absolute truth?

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

3. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?

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

5. How must one use suffering?

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