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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. Should suffering be placed at the same level as impermanence and non-self?
(a) No.
(b) Usually.
(c) Yes.
(d) Sometimes.

2. Buddha taught the Eightfold Path until when?
(a) His death.
(b) He became ill.
(c) He changed his teaching methods.
(d) He was sixty.

3. What does it mean to look deeply?
(a) Shamatha.
(b) Vipishtu.
(c) Vinitu.
(d) Vipashyana.

4. If we destroy living beings or the environment with what we eat, we are eating what?
(a) The flesh of our children.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Trash.
(d) Life.

5. "To practice social justice and non-exploitation, we have to use __________________."
(a) Right Diligence.
(b) Right Effort.
(c) Right Concentration.
(d) Right Speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?

2. In the first stage of the Third Noble Truth, of what are we not aware?

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

4. Our perceptions are affected by what?

5. What is the opposite of mindfulness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fifth Mindfulness training? What does Hanh say about alcohol in this section?

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

3. What is the Fourth Mindfulness Training?

4. What does Right Action mean?

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

6. How is conscious or mindful breathing important?

7. How can one avoid unwholesome thoughts? How can one touch the seeds of joy and peace and transform our suffering?

8. What is active concentration?

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

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

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