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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the initial thought and development of it, respectively?
(a) Vishnu and victorian.
(b) Vitarka and vichara.
(c) Viactin and vicara.
(d) Visceral and vein.

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

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

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

6. Hanh suggests reframing the four Noble Truths, replacing "cessation" with what?
(a) Ending.
(b) Beginning.
(c) Well-being.
(d) Stopping.

7. The therapy of one hour of deep, quiet listening can bring relief to suffering, and is what who try to practice?
(a) Psychotherapists.
(b) Chrstians.
(c) Most people.
(d) Those who are religious.

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

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

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

11. We need only to understand what about the other person?
(a) He or she is also compassionate.
(b) He or she is human.
(c) He or she is like us.
(d) He or she has suffered for compassion to be born.

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

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

14. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?
(a) Preventing unwholesome seeds and returning them, finding ways to water and nourish the wholesome seeds that have already risen.
(b) Acting appropriately.
(c) Watching the behavior of others.
(d) Focusing on Right Thinking.

15. Mindful breathing and meditation can help us with what?
(a) Compassionate speaking.
(b) Compassionate acting.
(c) Compassionate listening.
(d) Compassionate thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Smriti?

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

3. What is the goal of right Concentration?

4. Hanh feels we need to be mindful of what?

5. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?

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