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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is not the focus of your life.
(d) Earning a living that consumes your life.

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

3. Looking deeply in meditation is important, but what else is fundamental?
(a) Not thinking.
(b) Relaxing.
(c) Stopping to do so.
(d) Enjoying life.

4. What is the most important aspect of Right Diligence?
(a) Love.
(b) Joy.
(c) Peace.
(d) Calm.

5. "_______________ is at the heart of Buddha's teachings."
(a) Right Concentration.
(b) Right Mindfulness.
(c) Right Diligence.
(d) Right Action.

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

7. 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.

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

9. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

10. Right thinking is known as what?
(a) Our innate beliefs.
(b) The thoughts in our mind.
(c) The rights of our mind.
(d) The speech of our mind.

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

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

13. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?
(a) Courage and mindfulness.
(b) Meditation and patience.
(c) Patience and self-control.
(d) Courage and strength.

14. 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 third.
(b) The second.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The first.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Right Action means to do what?

2. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.

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

4. What is an example of a seed of unwholesome quality?

5. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?

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