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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Fear.

2. How must one use suffering?
(a) For fear.
(b) For sadness.
(c) For growth.
(d) For torture.

3. Generosity, sharing, cultivating love and kindness, and living simply, taking no more than our share, is what?
(a) Right Diligence.
(b) Right Thinking.
(c) Right Action.
(d) Right Concentration.

4. Mindful breathing helps us find what?
(a) Peace and solidity.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Strength.
(d) Control.

5. What is an example of a seed of unwholesome quality?
(a) Peace.
(b) Greed.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

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

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

8. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?
(a) The second.
(b) The fourth.
(c) The first.
(d) The third.

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

10. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Usually.
(d) Sometimes.

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

12. Buddha taught of _______________, where our ideas and concepts are extinguished.
(a) Dharma.
(b) Sutra.
(c) Karma.
(d) Nirvana.

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

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

15. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) God.
(b) Yourself.
(c) Your parent.
(d) The Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The third Mindfulness training is about what?

3. The Fourth Noble Truth is recognizing that the Eightfold Path of Right View, Thinking, Speech, Action, Livelihood, Diligence, Mindfulness and Concentration can do what?

4. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?

5. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"

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