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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 is the first stage of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) Closing our eyes, and taking a deep breath to relax the body.
(b) Decide that we will do no harm.
(c) Engendering loving-kindness for ourselves.
(d) Standing in the first yoga position.

2. What are the three characteristics of human existence?
(a) Change, adaptation, and unsatisfied expectations.
(b) Love, hope, and peace.
(c) Mediocrity, disinterest, and distraction.
(d) Impermanence, egolessness, and suffering.

3. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(b) As "essentially good."
(c) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."
(d) As "loving and generous at its very core."

4. What do vajrayana Buddhists claim is inherent in emotion?
(a) The seeds of self-growth.
(b) Hope.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Love.

5. What is the third lord of materialism?
(a) The lord of mind.
(b) The lord of applause.
(c) The lord of ambition.
(d) The lord of convenience.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author characterize meditation?

2. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?

3. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

4. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?

5. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Buddhist teaching tell us that all other beings have been over the course of many lifetimes?

2. According to Chodron, what is our relationship with enlightenment?

3. What does "of the two witnesses, hold the principal one" mean?

4. What are the stages of the formal practice of tonglen?

5. What image of maitri does Chodron use to explain the concept?

6. Why does Chodron mention a walled, protected community in Florida?

7. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?

8. What ways does Chodron write that meditation can be misused?

9. Under what conditions does the author claim that people can "train" to be a warrior?

10. What are the stages of the formal practice of loving-kindness?

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