Summer Buddhist School 2008 Exam Paper

"Examination for the Burmese children on the summer term Buddhist cultural teachings"
Saturday 13 September 2008
1.00 To 3.30 pm.

sa sa sa sa s

Circle the most appropriate things to do in your work.

1. How should you do your work? 4
a. Doing it neatly.
b. Doing it in a messy way.
c. Doing nothing and wasting your time.

2. What children should do when studying to avoid mistakes? 5

a. Chatting on line with your friends while doing home work.
b. Play games only after doing your home work.
c. Playing games before finishing your home work.
d. Doing your home work hastily only when you get to school.

3. Write on how you can take care of your parents? 5
E.g. Helping cleaning house

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4. Select from the following charitable deeds those that are most suitable for children to do? 5

a. Offering food to those who have no food.
b. Offering food to the Buddhist monks
c. Offering clothes to those who are in need of it.
d. Offering medicines to the ill and suffering.
e. Sharing food and edibles with friends.
f. Sharing your extra supply of books and pencils with friends.




5. Select from the following items the social and charitable deeds most suitable for children to do. 5

a. To look after poor relatives who have come to you for help from other places.
b. Visiting old people homes to care for the needy.
c. Guiding and teaching those children who have little knowledge of social and religious values.
d. Accompany and take care of younger brothers and sisters when going to school.
e. To treat the children of the under privileged families as your own when going to school.
f. When the lesser privileged children are bullied, help and encourage them.

6. Tick the correct items only that are good deeds, from the following: 5

a. Working hard in studies.
b. Gambling during recess or break times in school.
c. Helping parents.
d. Teasing girls on the streets.
e. Ganging up with friends to steal others property.
f. Fighting frequently.
g. Not listening to parents and doing what you want.

7. Select from the following the bad effects of taking alcohol and drugs. 5
a. Punished like in hell.
b. Become dull and stupid in your next life
c. Will be jailed.
d. Punished by law and lose your property.
e. When drunk you can commit all bad deeds and crimes.

8. Describe the most respectable person. 5

E.g. 1.Buddha 2. ---- 3. -----








9. Select from the following the rightful ways to pay respect those who deserve respect. 5

a. Giving the right of way when meeting people.
b. Giving up your seat to those who need it.
c. When people arrive, not to pay attention.
d. Not offering your seat to others on a bus or public transport.
e. When giving something to others to use both hands.
f. When giving something to use one hand only.

10. In the following sentences match the correct answers for the grateful and ungrateful conditions: 5

a. No need to be grateful to parents because they have given birth to me, and therefore looked after me.

b. We should be grateful to teachers because they are respectful and have done so much for us.

c. There is no need to look after parents; we should go our own way.
1. Being grateful 2. Being ungrateful

11. When a teacher tell the students in school not to be late in coming to school; to be punctual; explain the difference between the student who listens and who does not. 10









12. What is discipline? 10
Write down the benefits of following the disciplines in life.
Discipline is the rule for people as a group to function in unity and uniformity.








13. Based on the teachings at Summer School on the teachings of Buddha and educational knowledge, write an essay of one page one of the following subjects. 15

a. Summer School.
b. Summer School teachers.




























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