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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. What are the three jewels of refuge in Buddhism?
(a) The Truths, Seals, and Sangha.
(b) The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
(c) The Buddha, the Truths, and the Seals.
(d) The Dharma, Sangha, and Seals.

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

3. Hanh asks us to practice transformation by what?
(a) Deep thinking and deep action.
(b) Deep looking and deep touching.
(c) Deep meditation and deep passion.
(d) Deep thinking and deep meditation.

4. What is the second of the Five Faculties?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Faith in something reliable.
(c) Mindfulness.
(d) Insight or wisdom.

5. What are the Five Aggregates?
(a) Mental formations, feelings, form, space, and consciousness.
(b) Consciousness, feelings, form, time, and space.
(c) Form, space, time, shape, and feelings.
(d) Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Composing or performing art can be what?

2. What must we realize about everything?

3. Holiness is within us when?

4. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?

5. What is vedana?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a paramita? Describe one of the paramitas.

2. Describe a second paramita.

3. Describe the Twelve Links.

4. What is the importance of Dharma and Sangha?

5. What is the foundation of Buddhism?

6. How is nonself important?

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

8. What are the seven factors of awakening or enlightenment?

9. What is Dharmakaya?

10. Describe to of the Five Aggregates.

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