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

2. Hanh discourages what in the interest of ourselves and others?
(a) Driving while intoxicated.
(b) Losing sleep.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Drinking of any alcohol.

3. It is vital to keep our bodies, hearts and minds open to truth rather than what?
(a) Lies.
(b) Misunderstanding.
(c) Ignoring the truth.
(d) Comparing the teachings to what we already believe.

4. The practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings addresses what?
(a) The nutriments.
(b) The "goods" we ingest.
(c) The "bad" we ingest.
(d) The "good" we ingest.

5. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?
(a) Patience.
(b) Mindfulness.
(c) Quiet.
(d) The twelve turnings of the wheel of Dharma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many have embraced suffering for two thousand years as the primary principle of Buddhism, but Buddha taught us to recognize what and suffering?

2. Looking deeply in meditation is important, but what else is fundamental?

3. We need to learn to speak only with what?

4. Right thinking leads to what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is conscious or mindful breathing important?

2. What is the third turning?

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

4. For how long does Buddha teach the Eightfold Path?

5. What does Right Action mean?

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

7. What is suffering?

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

9. What are vitark and vichara? When are they no longer present?

10. What is Right Mindfulness?

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