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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The third Mindfulness training is about what?
(a) Parental responsibilty.
(b) Community responsibility.
(c) Sexual responsibility.
(d) Ingesting healthy foods.

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

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

4. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"
(a) To remind us to release thinking and be in the present moment.
(b) To remind us we are wrong.
(c) To remind us to never be too sure.
(d) To remind us to question ourselves.

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

6. What concentration aims at complete liberation?
(a) Absolutmundane.
(b) Supramundane.
(c) Neomundane.
(d) Supermundane.

7. How many months of mindfulness and enjoying the present moment brings real happiness, according to Hahn?
(a) Three to six months.
(b) Nine to twelve months.
(c) One to three months.
(d) Six to nine months.

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

9. Buddha said, "Where there is perception there is _________________."
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Deception.

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

11. Right Speech is speaking how?
(a) Truthfully, no matter how painful it may be.
(b) Truthfully, not with a forked tongue, not cruelly or slanderously and not exaggeration.
(c) Compassionately, in a way not to hurt others.
(d) Quietly and infrequently.

12. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Few seed.
(b) Many seeds.
(c) Wholesome or unwholesome.
(d) Weak seeds.

13. The first practice,______________________, is a deep understanding of the four Noble Truths of suffering, the making of it, the fact that it can be transformed, and its transformation.
(a) The Right Thinking.
(b) The Right Action.
(c) The Right Path.
(d) The Right View.

14. What is the Sixth Miracle of Mindfulness?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Believing.
(c) Forgiving.
(d) Transformation of our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.

15. Buddha taught the Eightfold Path until when?
(a) He changed his teaching methods.
(b) He was sixty.
(c) He became ill.
(d) His death.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Bodhichitta" is what?

2. What is the Seventh Miracle of Mindfulness?

3. Mindful breathing helps us find what?

4. What is the fourth nutriment?

5. Buddha suggests we replace unwholesome thoughts how?

(see the answer keys)

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