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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 Livelihood, Mindfulness, Right Thinking, and Right View.
(b) Right Concentration, Right View, Right Livelihood and Right Action.
(c) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Speech, and Right Livelihood.
(d) Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood, with Mindfulness Training.

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

3. What is the foundation of Buddhism?
(a) The Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) The Four Noble Truths.
(d) Suffering.

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

5. What is the first of the Five Faculties?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Insight or wisdom.
(c) Faith in something reliable.
(d) Mindfulness.

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

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

8. The Sarvastivada school's first condition requires 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.

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

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

11. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
(a) Ignore suffering.
(b) Not care about those things around us.
(c) Forget the importance of those around us.
(d) Cherish what is around and inside us.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration and letting go are the seven factors of what?

2. Energy is the result of what?

3. Our true home, and paradise, are where?

4. What is the second, shila paramita?

5. While Dharma is compassion, understanding and love, to realize it we need a _____________, or community and elements which support our practice.

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