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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. The second is the condition for what?
(a) Consistent and continuous practice.
(b) Development.
(c) Someone or some thing.
(d) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.

2. Right livelihood is what?
(a) Collective.
(b) Unique.
(c) Individual.
(d) Unusual.

3. What are the Three Doors of Liberation, opened by the Three Dharma Seals?
(a) Emptiness, signlessness and aimlessness.
(b) Fear, suffering, and hate.
(c) Love, joy, and happiness.
(d) Peace, quiet, and calm.

4. What must we realize about everything?
(a) It is often a part of the self.
(b) It has a separate self.
(c) It is empty of a separate self.
(d) It is part of the self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does nonself say?

2. Our anger or despair is connected to what?

3. Looking beyond signs means what?

4. Holiness is within us when?

5. The first of six paramitas, dana paramita, is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Twelve Links.

2. Describe two more Aggregates.

3. What is the foundation of Buddhism?

4. What is the importance of Dharma and Sangha?

5. What is the Sixth Power?

6. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

7. For what does the author ask?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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