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

2. What does the author believe professionals should do?
(a) Allow others to meditate many times throughout the day.
(b) Allow others to believe what they want.
(c) Help us create institutions that will promote collective awakening.
(d) Create work spaces that are simple.

3. Our anger or despair is connected to what?
(a) Someone or some thing.
(b) Creative force, concurrent condition, seed condition of the same kind, associated condition, universal condition and ripening condition.
(c) Consistent and continuous practice.
(d) Development.

4. When people do not seem to love and understand us, what must we do?
(a) Be patient.
(b) Be more loving and understanding.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Forget them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hanh asks us to practice transformation by what?

2. What is vedana?

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

4. Energy is the result of what?

5. The Five Faculties are powers that can help us do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between Buddha's teachings?

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

3. Describe a second paramita.

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

5. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

6. What is the foundation of Buddhism?

7. What is the importance of Dharma and Sangha?

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

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

10. How is nonself important?

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