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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, Buddhism, The Secret of the Flower, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Diamond Thunderbolt, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Image of Crossing,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does karma come into effect?
(a) When the spirit has reincarnated.
(b) When the spirit occupies a human form.
(c) When the spirit is in insect form.
(d) When the spirit resides in a cow.

2. What do (1) the brahmin, or seer; (2) the kshatriya, or administrator; (3) the vaishya, or producer; and (4) the shudra, or servant represent?
(a) The levels of education
(b) The highest forms of yoga
(c) The divisions of monks
(d) The stations of life

3. What is dharma?
(a) A group of monks
(b) The Buddhist equivalent of karma
(c) The means of crossing the river of ignorance
(d) An obstacle to reaching nirvana

4. What was the subject matter of the Buddha's first sermon?
(a) The Four Nobel Truths
(b) The Wheel of Fortune
(c) The Way to Enlightenment
(d) The Eight-fold Path

5. Eventually, how do Hindu minds conceive of God?
(a) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become statues.
(b) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become constellations.
(c) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become animals.
(d) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become total abstractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?

2. What is the idea of the spirit in Hinduism?

3. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?

4. Why does Hinduism stress what the human mind must leave out?

5. What is more or less the same in all forms of Buddhism?

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