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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finding a way to earn a living that does not conflict with love and compassion can do what?
(a) Bring joy and peace.
(b) Either bring pain or fear.
(c) Either bring joy or suffering.
(d) Bring peace and quiet.

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

3. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(b) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
(c) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(d) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.

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

5. What are the Three Doors of Liberation, opened by the Three Dharma Seals?
(a) Peace, quiet, and calm.
(b) Emptiness, signlessness and aimlessness.
(c) Love, joy, and happiness.
(d) Fear, suffering, and hate.

6. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?
(a) Forget them.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Be more loving and understanding.
(d) Be patient.

7. What is the second, shila paramita?
(a) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(b) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(c) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(d) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.

8. What does form include?
(a) Our five senses.
(b) Our emotions.
(c) Our body.
(d) Our body and five sense organs.

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

10. What is signlessness?
(a) Feelings of loss.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Signs are deception and illusion.
(d) Sadness.

11. What is the second of the five mindfulness trainings?
(a) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(b) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(c) Prevent exploitation by humans of nature and others, and generosity.
(d) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.

12. The Sarvastivada school defined how many conditions?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

13. Each element of the Noble Eightfold Path is contained where?
(a) Individually.
(b) Within the others.
(c) In small groups.
(d) In categories.

14. While Dharma is compassion, understanding and love, to realize it we need a _____________, or community and elements which support our practice.
(a) Sangha.
(b) Syria.
(c) Sangia.
(d) Sanskrit.

15. Relying on the Buddha within are we, ourselves, the Buddha?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Rarely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Composing or performing art can be what?

2. Why is life span an illusion?

3. When we recognize suffering and look deeply into it, we are practicing what?

4. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.

5. Looking beyond signs means what?

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