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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is vedana?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Form.
(d) Thought.
2. What does the author believe professionals should do?
(a) Help us create institutions that will promote collective awakening.
(b) Allow others to believe what they want.
(c) Allow others to meditate many times throughout the day.
(d) Create work spaces that are simple.
3. The Sarvastivada school defined how many conditions?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.
4. Our anger or despair is connected to what?
(a) Consistent and continuous practice.
(b) Development.
(c) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(d) Someone or some thing.
5. What is the second, shila paramita?
(a) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(b) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(c) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(d) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
6. Looking beyond signs means what?
(a) Looking to Buddha for advice.
(b) Losing fear of losing specific manifestations.
(c) Making one's own decisions.
(d) Not looking toward fate.
7. When we recognize suffering and look deeply into it, we are practicing what?
(a) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
(b) Right Thinking, Right Thoughtfulness, Right Compassion, and Right Concentration.
(c) Right Concentration, Right Contraction, Right Mindfulness, and Right Compassion.
(d) Right Diligence, Right Action, Right Thoughtfulness, and Right View.
8. Nirvana is what?
(a) The first step to paradise.
(b) The ground of interbeing.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Heaven.
9. Does Buddhism ask for blind faith?
(a) Yes, often.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, somewhat.
(d) Yes, absolutely.
10. What is the second of the Five Faculties?
(a) Insight or wisdom.
(b) Mindfulness.
(c) Faith in something reliable.
(d) Diligence.
11. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?
(a) The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
(b) The Truths, Seals, and Sangha.
(c) The Dharma, Sangha, and Seals.
(d) The Buddha, the Truths, and the Seals.
12. What is the second of the five mindfulness trainings?
(a) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(b) Prevent exploitation by humans of nature and others, and generosity.
(c) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(d) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
13. Composing or performing art can be what?
(a) Right thinking.
(b) Right concentration.
(c) Right action.
(d) Right livelihood.
14. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(b) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.
(c) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
(d) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
15. Energy is the result of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Feeling meaning in our lives.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Hope.
Short Answer Questions
1. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
2. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?
3. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?
4. What is the fifth power?
5. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?
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