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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration and letting go are the seven factors of what?
(a) The Four Noble Truths.
(b) Awakening or enlightenment.
(c) The Wheel of Dharma.
(d) Sangha.

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

3. Nirvana is what?
(a) The first step to paradise.
(b) Unusual.
(c) The ground of interbeing.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does nonself say?
(a) Everything is connected with everything else.
(b) No one is connected to anyone else.
(c) Things are not connected to beings.
(d) Nothing is connecte to anything else.

5. Hanh suggests meditating mindfully on what parts of the body?
(a) Each part.
(b) The inner parts.
(c) The outer parts.
(d) The organs.

6. What is a paramita?
(a) A fear.
(b) Perfection or perfect realization.
(c) A parasite.
(d) An imperfect being.

7. Our true home, and paradise, are where?
(a) In the present moment.
(b) In the past.
(c) In the future.
(d) In heaven.

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

9. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?
(a) Favorable conditions.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Faith.
(d) Joy.

10. What is the fifth power?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Insight or wisdom.
(c) Mindfulness.
(d) Faith in something reliable.

11. Impermanence and nonself are _____________.
(a) Unique.
(b) The same.
(c) Different.
(d) Unusual.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The second is the condition for what?

2. How can we apply the teachings?

3. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."

4. Holiness is within us when?

5. What does form include?

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