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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____________ come with right diligence and mindfulness training.
(a) Joy and ease.
(b) Love and compassion.
(c) Peace and prosperity.
(d) Calm and quiet.

2. What is the third turning?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Realization.

3. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?
(a) Know the source of our perceptions and see them deeply.
(b) Ignore perceptions.
(c) Forget about our own perceptions.
(d) Accept our perceptions as true.

4. What is the fourth practice of Right Diligence?
(a) Earning a living in non-destructive ways.
(b) Watering and keeping wholesome mental formations.
(c) Ingesting healthy foods.
(d) Sexual responsibility.

5. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?
(a) Lust.
(b) Joy.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ignorance.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Writing is a "deep practice" and should be done knowing our words will do what?
(a) Be remembered.
(b) Be forgotten quickly.
(c) Affect other people.
(d) Useless.

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

11. 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) Night.
(d) Evening.

12. Recognition of peace and joy, that well-being is possible, is which turning?
(a) The second.
(b) The first.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The third.

13. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.
(a) Do not suffer.
(b) Are happy.
(c) Have joy.
(d) Suffer.

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

15. The first __________ of the nine levels of meditative concentration are called Dhyanas.
(a) The Two Dhyanas.
(b) The Four Dhyanas.
(c) The Five Dhyanas.
(d) The Three Dhyanas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The third Mindfulness training is about what?

2. Are any views the absolute truth?

3. It is said that if you try to explain every word of the sutras, what happens?

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

5. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?

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