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

2. While Dharma is compassion, understanding and love, to realize it we need a _____________, or community and elements which support our practice.
(a) Syria.
(b) Sangha.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Sangia.

3. What does form include?
(a) Our emotions.
(b) Our body and five sense organs.
(c) Our five senses.
(d) Our body.

4. Looking beyond signs means what?
(a) Looking to Buddha for advice.
(b) Making one's own decisions.
(c) Losing fear of losing specific manifestations.
(d) Not looking toward fate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does impermanence cause suffering?

2. What isthe third of the Five Faculties?

3. What is signlessness?

4. Each element of the Noble Eightfold Path is contained where?

5. Why is life span an illusion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is nonself important?

2. Describe two more Aggregates.

3. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

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

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

6. What are the three Dharma seals?

7. Describe to of the Five Aggregates.

8. For what does the author ask?

9. What is said about love and happiness in this chapter?

10. Describe two of these seven factors.

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