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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 the fourth nutriment?
(a) Right Speaking.
(b) Real food.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Consciousness.

2. The first __________ of the nine levels of meditative concentration are called Dhyanas.
(a) The Five Dhyanas.
(b) The Four Dhyanas.
(c) The Three Dhyanas.
(d) The Two Dhyanas.

3. Right Diligence or Effort involves what?
(a) Watching the behavior of others.
(b) Preventing unwholesome seeds and returning them, finding ways to water and nourish the wholesome seeds that have already risen.
(c) Focusing on Right Thinking.
(d) Acting appropriately.

4. What do the Four Establishments of Mindfulness do?
(a) Identify our feelings.
(b) Help us to forget suffering.
(c) Create a place of refuge for ourselves and others.
(d) Transform our suffering as well as the suffering of the world.

5. What concentration aims at complete liberation?
(a) Supramundane.
(b) Supermundane.
(c) Neomundane.
(d) Absolutmundane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hanh advises us to leave a job where we are not allowed to do what?

3. We are always giving our attention to something, and it often does what?

4. Is concentration to ignore suffering?

5. Hanh explains that Buddha was a man who suffered, and that we can enter his heart now only because we ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Siddhartha Gutama teach?

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

3. What is important about being in the present moment?

4. What comes with right diligence and mindfulness training?

5. What is Right Diligence or Effort?

6. Describe the third turning of the wheel of Dharma.

7. What is selective concentration?

8. What is Right Mindfulness?

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

10. What leads to the path of Right Action?

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