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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?
(a) Faith in something reliable.
(b) Mindfulness.
(c) Diligence.
(d) Insight or wisdom.

2. How can we apply the teachings?
(a) Through our meditation.
(b) Through our actions.
(c) Through our thoughts.
(d) Through our words.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. Does Buddhism ask for blind faith?
(a) Yes, absolutely.
(b) Yes, somewhat.
(c) Yes, often.
(d) No.

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

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

14. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?

2. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?

3. Happiness and beauty lie where?

4. Investigation and allowing things to reveal themselves expands what?

5. Emptiness must be _____________, not just as philosophy.

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