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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How has the Western mind often viewed the Path of Renunciation?
(a) As an example of good ethics
(b) As a life-denying spoilsport
(c) As the ultimate comparison to Christianity
(d) As the best Hinduism has to offer

3. What seems to be the appeal bhakti yoga?
(a) Its humanness rather than a more esoteric approach to religion.
(b) Its many different ways to identify oneself.
(c) Its universality that may be applied to any religion.
(d) Its ease and comfort of practice.

4. How did the Taoist church devise a way of harnessing higher power for human benefit?
(a) By organizing religious retreats
(b) By assuming the reality of magical intervention
(c) By perfecting astrology
(d) By opening schools for magicians

5. What is the real idea behind the three Taoist senses?
(a) To lose something, to find something, and to forget something
(b) To be something, to know something, and to be able to do something
(c) To have something, to make something, and to learn something
(d) To work something out, to expose something, and to define something

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakya?

2. What is the main departure of Tibetan Buddhism?

3. Who profits most from raja yoga?

4. What physical exercise was developed by Taoists?

5. What is the viewpoint of the Theravada Buddhist?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Buddha get his name?

2. Why is Zen Buddhism so difficult to define in words?

3. How does Taoism look at the weak and the deformed?

4. What is the irony of Buddhist practice today?

5. How did Siddhartha react to any effort to elevate him to god stature?

6. What is the inherent problem with perceiving the natural world according to Hinduism?

7. Tell how one word came to epitomize Buddhism.

8. What warning is given about the practice of raja yoga?

9. Explain dharma and sangha and their relationship to Buddhist monks.

10. Why is there so much emphasis on self-examination in Buddhism?

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