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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?
(a) Encourages it.
(b) Ends it.
(c) Eases it.
(d) Strengthens it.

2. "To practice social justice and non-exploitation, we have to use __________________."
(a) Right Speech.
(b) Right Effort.
(c) Right Diligence.
(d) Right Concentration.

3. Are any views the absolute truth?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, only a few.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) Yes, many.

4. Right Action is related to Right Livelihood, or what?
(a) Forms of entertainment that are not destructive.
(b) Earning a living that is not the focus of your life.
(c) Earning a living in non-destructive ways.
(d) Earning a living that consumes your life.

5. The Buddha said, "The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already _________________."
(a) Passing your suffering on to others.
(b) On the path of release from it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Gaining more suffering.

6. The third Mindfulness training is about what?
(a) Ingesting healthy foods.
(b) Sexual responsibility.
(c) Community responsibility.
(d) Parental responsibilty.

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

8. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.
(a) Samantha.
(b) Sithartha.
(c) Shamatha.
(d) Shamhara.

9. Right Speech is speaking how?
(a) Truthfully, no matter how painful it may be.
(b) Quietly and infrequently.
(c) Truthfully, not with a forked tongue, not cruelly or slanderously and not exaggeration.
(d) Compassionately, in a way not to hurt others.

10. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.
(a) Almost completely.
(b) Fully.
(c) Partially.
(d) Slightly.

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

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

13. What is the Seventh Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) Forgiving.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Transformation of our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(d) Believing.

14. It is vital to keep our bodies, hearts and minds open to truth rather than what?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Ignoring the truth.
(c) Comparing the teachings to what we already believe.
(d) Lies.

15. In the second turning we encourage ourselves to do what?
(a) Learn, reflect and practice.
(b) Accept. understand, decide.
(c) Ignore, accept, and understand.
(d) Listen, speak, communicate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Conscious breathing is an important link between what?

2. Mindful breathing helps us find what?

3. Hanh discourages what in the interest of ourselves and others?

4. What concentration aims at complete liberation?

5. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?

(see the answer keys)

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