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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can Right View be taught?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Often.

2. Buddha suggests we replace unwholesome thoughts how?
(a) By asking Buddha to remove the unwholesome thoughts.
(b) By thinking of only wholesome thoughts.
(c) By living in a wholesome environment with those who practice mindful living.
(d) By relaxing.

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

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

5. "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.

6. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.
(a) Fully.
(b) Almost completely.
(c) Partially.
(d) Slightly.

7. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

8. 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) Suffer.
(c) Have joy.
(d) Are happy.

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

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

11. What is the opposite of mindfulness?
(a) Thoughtlessness.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Suffering.

12. Is concentration to ignore suffering?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Frequently.
(d) Yes.

13. Our perceptions are affected by what?
(a) Our ignorance.
(b) Our own thoughts.
(c) How we have been raised.
(d) Everything subjective in our lives, positive and negative.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Right thinking leads to what?

2. Speaking each person's individual language, like Bodhisattva, or writing a letter using Right speech, can do what?

3. Transforming by changing our behavior and practicing can bring suffering to an end and increase what?

4. With what does the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma have to do?

5. What is the second Miracle of Mindfulness?

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