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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"
(a) To remind us we are wrong.
(b) To remind us to release thinking and be in the present moment.
(c) To remind us to question ourselves.
(d) To remind us to never be too sure.

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

4. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?
(a) The twelve turnings of the wheel of Dharma.
(b) Patience.
(c) Mindfulness.
(d) Quiet.

5. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Write down his thoughts.
(b) Find others to talk to.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Find ways to express it in words.

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

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

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

9. "Bodhichitta" is what?
(a) Our mind of love that motivates mindful living.
(b) A follower of Buddha.
(c) A place to meditate.
(d) A Buddhist monk.

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

11. The therapy of one hour of deep, quiet listening can bring relief to suffering, and is what who try to practice?
(a) Psychotherapists.
(b) Chrstians.
(c) Most people.
(d) Those who are religious.

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

13. Hanh recommends a _____________ gatha to remind us to live fully each day, not wasting our day, and being mindful with love and compassion.
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Morning.
(c) Evening.
(d) Night.

14. Right thinking leads to what?
(a) Right action.
(b) Right concentration.
(c) Right livelihood.
(d) Right view.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?

2. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

3. Right Action is related to Right Livelihood, or what?

4. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?

5. What does Hanh suggest doing to our habit energies?

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