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

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

3. The ____________ Dharma seals of Buddha's teaching are: impermanence, nonself and nirvana.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

4. Practicing _________________ transforms our habit energies and recognizes the sameness of everything and everyone.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Equanimity.
(c) Contrasts.
(d) Dynamics.

5. Composing or performing art can be what?
(a) Right action.
(b) Right livelihood.
(c) Right thinking.
(d) Right concentration.

Short Answer Questions

1. We will see layers of causes and conditions, and can now stop ingesting the nutriments causing our suffering by practicing what as a guide?

2. Nirvana is what?

3. Our true home, and paradise, are where?

4. What is the foundation of Buddhism?

5. The first of the five mindfulness trainings is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe two of these seven factors.

2. Describe two more Aggregates.

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

4. Describe the Twelve Links.

5. What is Dharmakaya?

6. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

7. What are the three Dharma seals?

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

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

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

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