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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. We will see layers of causes and conditions, and can now stop ingesting the nutriments causing our suffering by practicing what as a guide?
(a) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Speech, and Right Livelihood.
(b) Right Livelihood, Mindfulness, Right Thinking, and Right View.
(c) Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood, with Mindfulness Training.
(d) Right Concentration, Right View, Right Livelihood and Right Action.

2. Incorrect perceptions are conditioned by the afflictions in us of what?
(a) Fear, hurt, pain, and uncertainty.
(b) Ignorance, craving, hatred, anger, and jealousy.
(c) Ignorance, fear, hurt, and pain.
(d) Crazing, hatred, anger, and pain.

3. "All suffering is born from ________________."
(a) Our parents.
(b) Original sin.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Wrong perceptions.

4. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?
(a) Generate the energy in ourselves to be in paradise.
(b) Accept the present.
(c) Find paradise.
(d) Understand paradise.

5. Investigation and allowing things to reveal themselves expands what?
(a) Our joy.
(b) Our possibilities.
(c) Our peace.
(d) Our boundaries.

6. We can look deeply into the Five Aggregates, and remember the reality of what?
(a) No-birth and no-death.
(b) Joy and suffering.
(c) Life.
(d) Birth and death.

7. The Sarvastivada school's first condition requires what?
(a) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(b) Consistent and continuous practice.
(c) Development.
(d) Someone or some thing.

8. Happiness and beauty lie where?
(a) In our bodies.
(b) In our actions.
(c) In our minds.
(d) In our hearts.

9. Emptiness must be _____________, not just as philosophy.
(a) Forgotten.
(b) Practiced.
(c) Memorized.
(d) Remembered.

10. Mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration and letting go are the seven factors of what?
(a) Sangha.
(b) The Four Noble Truths.
(c) Awakening or enlightenment.
(d) The Wheel of Dharma.

11. Like the relationship of a plant and the earth, when we take refuge in Buddha, ______________________.
(a) Buddha takes refuge in us.
(b) Buddha takes pride in us.
(c) Buddha encourages us to take refuge in the self.
(d) Buddha remembers us.

12. Our anger or despair is connected to what?
(a) Consistent and continuous practice.
(b) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(c) Development.
(d) Someone or some thing.

13. Looking beyond signs means what?
(a) Looking to Buddha for advice.
(b) Making one's own decisions.
(c) Not looking toward fate.
(d) Losing fear of losing specific manifestations.

14. Practicing _________________ transforms our habit energies and recognizes the sameness of everything and everyone.
(a) Equanimity.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Contrasts.
(d) Dynamics.

15. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Joy.
(d) Favorable conditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Buddhism ask for blind faith?

2. The Sarvastivada school defined how many conditions?

3. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."

4. What is the fifth power?

5. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?

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