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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 Hanh suggest doing to our habit energies?
(a) Frowning at them.
(b) Smiling at them.
(c) Ignoring them.
(d) Laughing at them.

2. Right thinking leads to what?
(a) Right Praying.
(b) Right Activities.
(c) Right Diligence.
(d) Right Intelligence.

3. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?
(a) The fourth.
(b) The first.
(c) The second.
(d) The third.

4. What is Smriti?
(a) The Hindi word for mindfulness.
(b) The Prankrit word for mindfulness.
(c) The Thai word for mindfulness.
(d) The Sanskrit word for mindfulness.

5. Mindful breathing and meditation can help us with what?
(a) Compassionate thinking.
(b) Compassionate acting.
(c) Compassionate listening.
(d) Compassionate speaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

2. The Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness notes how many objects for mindfulness practice?

3. Buddha taught of _______________, where our ideas and concepts are extinguished.

4. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.

5. Buddha taught the Eightfold Path until when?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Siddhartha Gutama teach?

2. What is active concentration?

3. What comes with right diligence and mindfulness training?

4. How important is deep, quiet listening, mindful breathing, and meditation?

5. What does Buddha think of perception?

6. What is a misunderstanding about suffering?

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

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

9. What is the Fourth Mindfulness Training?

10. What does Right Action mean?

(see the answer keys)

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