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. What is the tanha?
(a) Loosely translated, it is religious education.
(b) Loosely translated, it is the fear of death.
(c) Loosely translated, it is suffering.
(d) Loosely translated, it is human desire.

2. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?
(a) It offers more lasting value than the self-centered desires of human nature.
(b) It offers membership in a larger family.
(c) It offers a better way to get what you want.
(d) It offers political opportunity to gain more personal power.

3. What did the Buddha think about religious rituals?
(a) He invented new ones for his day.
(b) He ridiculed rites as mere superstitions.
(c) He thought they had been neglected.
(d) He taught they were necessary exercises.

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

5. How does the yogi eliminate distractions of the mind during raja yoga?
(a) The yogi lies flat of his back.
(b) The yogi puts cotton in his ears.
(c) The yogi concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of all others.
(d) The yogi concentrates on reading.