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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third 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) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(d) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.

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

3. What does the author believe professionals should do?
(a) Help us create institutions that will promote collective awakening.
(b) Create work spaces that are simple.
(c) Allow others to believe what they want.
(d) Allow others to meditate many times throughout the day.

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

5. Relying on the Buddha within are we, ourselves, the Buddha?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Rarely.

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

7. What are the Three Doors of Liberation, opened by the Three Dharma Seals?
(a) Love, joy, and happiness.
(b) Fear, suffering, and hate.
(c) Emptiness, signlessness and aimlessness.
(d) Peace, quiet, and calm.

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

9. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?
(a) Forget the importance of those around us.
(b) Ignore suffering.
(c) Cherish what is around and inside us.
(d) Not care about those things around us.

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

11. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(b) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.
(c) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(d) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Like the relationship of a plant and the earth, when we take refuge in Buddha, ______________________.

2. Does Buddhism ask for blind faith?

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

4. What is vedana?

5. What is the second of the Five Faculties?

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