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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. In the second turning we encourage ourselves to do what?
(a) Ignore, accept, and understand.
(b) Learn, reflect and practice.
(c) Listen, speak, communicate.
(d) Accept. understand, decide.

2. The Fourth Noble Truth is recognizing that the Eightfold Path of Right View, Thinking, Speech, Action, Livelihood, Diligence, Mindfulness and Concentration can do what?
(a) Guide us down the wrong path.
(b) Lead us to confusion.
(c) Lead us out of suffering.
(d) Lead us astray.

3. Suffering, its recognition, making, and the path out of it are all ___________, as are the Four Noble Truths.
(a) Alone.
(b) Separate.
(c) Unique.
(d) Intertwined.

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

5. Why does Hanh suggest the reader to write the words, "Are you sure?" where they can be seen, and "What am I doing?"
(a) To remind us to question ourselves.
(b) To remind us we are wrong.
(c) To remind us to never be too sure.
(d) To remind us to release thinking and be in the present moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is active concentration?

2. Are rightness and wrongness subjective?

3. Our habit energies bring about what?

4. What is the opposite of mindfulness?

5. The first four miracles of mindfulness belong to the first aspect of meditation known as __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Buddha say about suffering and nirvana?

2. Describe the first two turnings of the wheel of Dharma.

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

4. How can one find conditions for happiness that are already available?

5. What did Siddhartha Gutama teach?

6. What is suffering?

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

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

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

10. What are two of the Miracles of Mindfulness? What is the importance of the first four Miracles of Mindfulness?

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