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

2. Happiness and beauty lie where?
(a) In our bodies.
(b) In our minds.
(c) In our actions.
(d) In our hearts.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sarvastivada school defined how many conditions?

2. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?

3. Hanh suggests meditating mindfully on what parts of the body?

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

5. We can look deeply into the Five Aggregates, and remember the reality of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

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

3. Describe two of these seven factors.

4. How is nonself important?

5. What is Dharmakaya?

6. For what does the author ask?

7. What is the importance of Dharma and Sangha?

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

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

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

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