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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Zen koan?
(a) Private consultation with a master
(b) Problems like the classic "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
(c) Sitting in meditation for long hours
(d) The elaborate tea ceremony with its slow and graceful movements

2. What is the sangha?
(a) A tree that grows in India
(b) A permit to travel
(c) A Buddist religious order
(d) A type of beer

3. What is the Hindu concept of galaxies of finer or courser natures?
(a) These are illusions with which man must deal.
(b) These are obstacles to be reasoned out.
(c) These are other life forms in the universe.
(d) These are paths the spirit travels in quest of God.

4. What is the problem of explaining nirvana?
(a) It can only been reached after death.
(b) To the unenlightened mind, it is vague.
(c) It is an untranslatable word.
(d) It has multiple meanings.

5. What is the objective of philosophical Taoism?
(a) Reasoning things out by questions and answers
(b) Figuring out the complexities of living
(c) Making something useful for all humanity
(d) Quietude that is expressed as pure effectiveness in simplicity

6. What physical exercise was developed by Taoists?
(a) The raja yoga
(b) The kung-fu
(c) The t'ai ch'i chuan
(d) The chin-up

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

8. Why is the question of "is this all" relevant to Hinduism?
(a) Because Hinduism fails to give the answers to life's questions.
(b) Because Hinduism constantly demands more
(c) Because it affirms that there is far more to life than satisfying pleasures.
(d) Because Hinduism has no beginning or ending

9. What is the irony of Buddhism and India?
(a) Buddhism replaced the centuries old practice of Hinduism in India.
(b) Buddhism was never understood in India.
(c) Buddhism flourishes all over Asia except in India where Buddhism was born.
(d) Buddhism never flourished in India.

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

11. Who is credited as the originator of Taoism?
(a) Lao Tzu
(b) Mao Tse-tung
(c) Kublai Khan
(d) Confucius

12. What is the Hindu attitude toward other religions?
(a) They will one day turn to Hinduism.
(b) They are alternate paths toward the same goal.
(c) They are headed for different ends.
(d) They are misguided.

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

14. What is it that Taoists reject?
(a) All forms of competition or ambition to stand out
(b) Group dynamics of equality
(c) Work without working
(d) Quietude as a means of simplifying life

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Siddhartha sitting as he gained enlightenment?

2. Who profits most from raja yoga?

3. What did religious Taoism accommodate that other religions in China did not?

4. What do the guidelines for right conduct in Buddhism resemble?

5. What seems to be the appeal bhakti yoga?

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