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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?
(a) Transform our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(b) Help us to forget suffering.
(c) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(d) Identify our feelings.

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

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

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

5. Buddhism is a practice to help what?
(a) Eliminate wrong view.
(b) Believers get to heaven.
(c) Make people happy.
(d) End suffering.

6. Right Action means to do what?
(a) The ways that everyone should act.
(b) The behavior of Buddhists.
(c) Everything connected with the body nonviolently and in mindfulness.
(d) Everything connected with the body.

7. Hanh discourages what in the interest of ourselves and others?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Drinking of any alcohol.
(c) Driving while intoxicated.
(d) Losing sleep.

8. Right thinking leads to what?
(a) Right Activities.
(b) Right Praying.
(c) Right Diligence.
(d) Right Intelligence.

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

10. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Usually.
(d) Sometimes.

11. What is the Third Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) To make others present.
(b) To nourish others.
(c) To nourish yourself.
(d) To be present.

12. We need to learn to speak only with what?
(a) Fear and suffering.
(b) Love and calmness.
(c) Patience and understanding.
(d) Quiet and calmness.

13. Are suffering and joy both impermanent?
(a) No.
(b) Usually.
(c) Yes.
(d) Rarely.

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

15. Another misunderstanding is that our suffering is caused by ________________.
(a) Buddha.
(b) Craving.
(c) Love.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first stage of the Third Noble Truth, of what are we not aware?

2. The first __________ of the nine levels of meditative concentration are called Dhyanas.

3. The fifth Mindfulness training is associated with what?

4. The Buddha said, "The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already _________________."

5. When we appreciate what, we can find conditions for happiness that are already available?

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