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

2. We need to learn to speak only with what?
(a) Patience and understanding.
(b) Fear and suffering.
(c) Quiet and calmness.
(d) Love and calmness.

3. What does the Fourth Mindfulness Training describe?
(a) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(b) The affirmation to speak truthfully and non-judgmentally, not cause division and discord, and resolve all conflicts.
(c) Transforming our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.
(d) Forgetting our suffering.

4. The Buddha said, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake _______ ."
(a) My teaching for pointing.
(b) The finger for the moon.
(c) The moon for the finger.
(d) The pointing of the finger.

5. The fifth Mindfulness training is associated with what?
(a) What foods to avoid.
(b) Personal responsibility.
(c) Ingesting healthy foods.
(d) Sexual responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. We need to do what to become free of perceptions and be able to see things as they are?

2. What is the fourth practice of Right Diligence?

3. _____________ come with right diligence and mindfulness training.

4. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?

5. What is the fourth nutriment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Right View?

2. What is active concentration?

3. What comprises Buddhism?

4. Describe the first stage of the Third Noble Truth and the second turning.

5. Why do we suffer?

6. What is Right Diligence or Effort?

7. What is the Fourth Mindfulness Training?

8. What does Right Action mean?

9. How is conscious or mindful breathing important?

10. What is selective concentration?

(see the answer keys)

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