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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Favorable conditions.
(c) Joy.
(d) Buddha.
2. What does form include?
(a) Our body and five sense organs.
(b) Our emotions.
(c) Our five senses.
(d) Our body.
3. Finding a way to earn a living that does not conflict with love and compassion can do what?
(a) Either bring joy or suffering.
(b) Either bring pain or fear.
(c) Bring peace and quiet.
(d) Bring joy and peace.
4. Holiness is within us when?
(a) We arrive at nirvana.
(b) We live in harmony.
(c) We die.
(d) We are born.
5. Nirvana is what?
(a) Unusual.
(b) The ground of interbeing.
(c) The first step to paradise.
(d) Heaven.
6. 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 Diligence, Right Action, Right Thoughtfulness, and Right View.
(c) Right Concentration, Right Contraction, Right Mindfulness, and Right Compassion.
(d) Right View, Right Thinking, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
7. We can look deeply into the Five Aggregates, and remember the reality of what?
(a) Joy and suffering.
(b) Birth and death.
(c) No-birth and no-death.
(d) Life.
8. Energy is the result of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Feeling meaning in our lives.
(d) Compassion.
9. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?
(a) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(b) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(c) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(d) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
10. What is the second of the Five Faculties?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Insight or wisdom.
(c) Mindfulness.
(d) Faith in something reliable.
11. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?
(a) The Truths, Seals, and Sangha.
(b) The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
(c) The Buddha, the Truths, and the Seals.
(d) The Dharma, Sangha, and Seals.
12. The Sarvastivada school defined how many conditions?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.
13. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(b) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(c) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
(d) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.
14. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?
(a) Faith in something reliable.
(b) Diligence.
(c) Insight or wisdom.
(d) Mindfulness.
15. Mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration and letting go are the seven factors of what?
(a) The Four Noble Truths.
(b) Sangha.
(c) The Wheel of Dharma.
(d) Awakening or enlightenment.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the first of the Five Faculties?
2. What is the second, shila paramita?
3. What is the third of the five mindfulness trainings?
4. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."
5. What must we realize about everything?
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