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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does impermanence cause suffering?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, sometimes.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) Yes, usually.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is signlessness?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Feelings of loss.
(d) Signs are deception and illusion.

11. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."
(a) Other people.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Things.
(d) Ourselves, other people or things.

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

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

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

15. Happiness and beauty lie where?
(a) In our bodies.
(b) In our actions.
(c) In our minds.
(d) In our hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Relying on the Buddha within are we, ourselves, the Buddha?

2. Incorrect perceptions are conditioned by the afflictions in us of what?

3. Nirvana is what?

4. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?

5. What must we realize about everything?

(see the answer keys)

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