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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?
(a) Others will become confused.
(b) You will die.
(c) You slander Buddha in past, present and future.
(d) You embarrass Buddha and yourself.

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

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

4. Nirvana is what?
(a) The first step to paradise.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Unusual.
(d) The ground of interbeing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The second is the condition for what?

2. Another misunderstanding is that our suffering is caused by ________________.

3. "Bodhichitta" is what?

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

5. Right thinking leads to what?

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