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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. "All suffering is born from ________________."
(a) Original sin.
(b) Wrong perceptions.
(c) Our parents.
(d) Mistakes.

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

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

6. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?
(a) Be patient.
(b) Forget them.
(c) Be more loving and understanding.
(d) Ignore them.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must we realize about everything?

2. Happiness and beauty lie where?

3. Practicing _________________ transforms our habit energies and recognizes the sameness of everything and everyone.

4. What is the second of the Five Faculties?

5. The third condition requires what?

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