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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?
(a) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(b) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(c) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(d) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.

2. When we recognize suffering and look deeply into it, we are practicing what?
(a) Right Concentration, Right Contraction, Right Mindfulness, and Right Compassion.
(b) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
(c) Right Diligence, Right Action, Right Thoughtfulness, and Right View.
(d) Right Thinking, Right Thoughtfulness, Right Compassion, and Right Concentration.

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

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

5. What is vedana?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Thought.
(c) Form.
(d) Feelings.

6. Composing or performing art can be what?
(a) Right livelihood.
(b) Right thinking.
(c) Right concentration.
(d) Right action.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why is life span an illusion?
(a) No one knows his or her life span.
(b) We have never been born and we never die.
(c) No one's life span is the same.
(d) A human life span is longer.

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

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

15. Right livelihood is what?
(a) Collective.
(b) Individual.
(c) Unique.
(d) Unusual.

Short Answer Questions

1. "All suffering is born from ________________."

2. The third condition requires what?

3. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?

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

5. Holiness is within us when?

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