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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wheel of Dharma teach?
(a) The Right Way.
(b) The Middle Way.
(c) Buddha's Way.
(d) Your Way.

2. What is the opposite of mindfulness?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Fear.
(c) Thoughtlessness.
(d) Forgetfulness.

3. After experiencing perfect awakening, the Buddha had to do what?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Write down his thoughts.
(c) Find others to talk to.
(d) Find ways to express it in words.

4. "_______________ is at the heart of Buddha's teachings."
(a) Right Mindfulness.
(b) Right Diligence.
(c) Right Concentration.
(d) Right Action.

5. Right thinking leads to what?
(a) Right action.
(b) Right livelihood.
(c) Right view.
(d) Right concentration.

Short Answer Questions

1. How must one use suffering?

2. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?

3. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?

4. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.

5. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Right Mindfulness?

2. What is used to understand the Four Noble Truths?

3. How can one find conditions for happiness that are already available?

4. Describe two more Miracles of Mindfulness.

5. Why does Siddhartha Gutama sit under a bodhi tree? What happens while he is sitting here?

6. What leads to the path of Right Action?

7. What are the four nutriments? Describe these nutriments.

8. What is the practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings?

9. What does the author say about the Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness?

10. What does Hahn suggest we do about our habit energies?

(see the answer keys)

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