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. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?
(a) Only philosophers can possess that information.
(b) Only one individual per lifetime has this knowledge.
(c) All humans already posses these things but until a certain point they remain hidden.
(d) Only the oldest gurus understand these things.

2. 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 human desire.
(d) Loosely translated, it is suffering.

3. In the caste system, who receives the greatest punishment for wrong doing?
(a) Among the working class, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(b) The lower the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(c) The higher the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(d) The sin of monks, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.

4. What does the Hindu say would happen if the divine base of everything is removed?
(a) People would be free to do as they willed.
(b) The stars would shift their constellations.
(c) Religion would die out.
(d) The natural world would disintegrate into nothing.

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