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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?
(a) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(b) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(c) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(d) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.

2. What is the third truth?
(a) The cessation of creating suffering by stopping what we are doing.
(b) The cessation of creating suffering by ignoring what we are doing.
(c) The cessation of creating suffering by thinking about what we are doing.
(d) The cessation of creating suffering by changing what we are doing.

3. We can learn calming by recognition, acceptance, ________________, looking deeply and insight.
(a) Embracing.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Ignorance.

4. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

5. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Looking beyond signs means what?

2. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?

3. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."

4. "All suffering is born from ________________."

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

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