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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. Emptiness must be _____________, not just as philosophy.
(a) Remembered.
(b) Practiced.
(c) Memorized.
(d) Forgotten.

2. "Mindfulness always arises in the context of a relationship with ______________________."
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Other people.
(c) Ourselves, other people or things.
(d) Things.

3. The first of the five mindfulness trainings is what?
(a) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(b) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(c) Giving and offering joy and love to others.
(d) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.

4. Nirvana is what?
(a) Unusual.
(b) The first step to paradise.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The ground of interbeing.

5. What is the second of the five mindfulness trainings?
(a) To protect children and adults from sexual abuse and preserve happiness.
(b) Protection of the lives of humans, animals and nature.
(c) Perfection of the five mindfulness trainings.
(d) Prevent exploitation by humans of nature and others, and generosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Awakening is always available to us and needs only what?

2. What does nonself say?

3. What does form include?

4. Does Buddhism ask for blind faith?

5. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe to of the Five Aggregates.

2. How is Buddha important as one of the three jewels of refuge?

3. How should one go about finding a way to earn a living?

4. How is nonself important?

5. Describe a second paramita.

6. What is paradise? What helps generate the energy in ourselves to be in paradise?

7. What is the Sixth Power?

8. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

9. Describe two of these seven factors.

10. What is the foundation of Buddhism?

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