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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Confucianism, Rival Answers, | Chapter IV, Confucianism, Confucius' Answer, | Chapter IV, The Content of Deliberate Tradition,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Buddha write during his lifetime?
(a) The Buddhist Bible
(b) The Sangha
(c) Nothing
(d) The Vidas

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

3. What is the idea behind karma yoga as work?
(a) Work becomes habit which frees the mind for enjoyment.
(b) You get what you work for.
(c) Work keeps you centered on self.
(d) By concentrating on work with a kind of detachment, there is no time for selfishness.

4. After pleasure seeking, what does Hinduism see as the next major life goal?
(a) Travel and culture
(b) Worldly success
(c) Spiritual enlightenment
(d) Overcoming illness

5. How does Hinduism see life?
(a) As something to be ignored
(b) As a way to stay young
(c) As the main source of suffering
(d) On a continuum that moves naturally through all the stages

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the sangha?

3. What is the irony of assigning god-like attributes to the Buddha?

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

5. How is Western thought different from Hinduism in the matter of imperfection?

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