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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speaking each person's individual language, like Bodhisattva, or writing a letter using Right speech, can do what?
(a) Benefit no one.
(b) Benefit sender and receiver.
(c) Benefit the sender.
(d) Benefit the receiver.

2. What is the goal of right Concentration?
(a) A one-pointed mind.
(b) A many-pointed mind.
(c) A quiet mind.
(d) A rounded mind.

3. What does it mean to look deeply?
(a) Vipishtu.
(b) Shamatha.
(c) Vipashyana.
(d) Vinitu.

4. While mindfully breathing, what does the author suggest be done?
(a) Suffering should be forgotten.
(b) Feelings should be identified.
(c) Our suffering should be transformed.
(d) A place of refuge should be created.

5. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.
(a) Spirit at the top.
(b) Sout at the top.
(c) Mind at the bottom.
(d) Spirit at the bottom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?

2. Right thinking leads to what?

3. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?

4. The therapy of one hour of deep, quiet listening can bring relief to suffering, and is what who try to practice?

5. Like the relationship of a plant and the earth, when we take refuge in Buddha, ______________________.

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