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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. Who are the two witnesses that Chodron writes about?
(a) The male and female.
(b) The self and other.
(c) The inner and outer critic.
(d) The teacher and student.

2. What poet does the author quote as saying, "If I don't get a vision on Desolation Peak, then my name ain't William Blake."
(a) John Billings.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Anne Sexton.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

3. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

4. What are the four limitless qualities?
(a) Hope, generosity, love, and relaxation.
(b) Change, Suffering, discomfort, and lack.
(c) Loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
(d) Material things, ideas, barriers of the self, and barriers of others.

5. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the title of the book come from?

2. Why does Chodron work with aspirations?

3. What does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?

4. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?

5. Which answer completes the following quote? "If this process of clear seeing isn't based on self-compassion it will become a process of ______."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?

4. What are the three lords of materialism?

5. What are the qualities of maitri that are cultivated when we meditate?

6. What are the lojong teachings?

7. What are the four limitless qualities?

8. What is tonglen?

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

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

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