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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hanh view as the best investment one can make?
(a) Cultivating a lifelong commitment.
(b) Nurturing one's spiritual interests.
(c) Cultivating a relationship with a friend.
(d) Maintaining one's health.

2. Realistically, who can benefit from an individual's mindful living?
(a) Those who are suffering.
(b) Relatives and close friends.
(c) The world.
(d) People who are in daily contact.

3. What should one do as angry feelings subside?
(a) Examine the source.
(b) Nurture the anger.
(c) Observe mindfully.
(d) Breathe consciously.

4. What happens when one is cut off from nature?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Illness.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Mindfulness.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 51, Hanh introduces the word interbeing. What is the meaning of this word?
(a) All things are sources of energy.
(b) All things are connected.
(c) All things are sacred.
(d) All things exist in harmony.

6. What reason does Hanh give for the abuse of children at their own parents' hands?
(a) The parents were not living in mindfulness.
(b) The child misunderstood discipline for abuse.
(c) The parents were only disciplining the child.
(d) The parents themselves were abused.

7. In "Transforming Feelings", who/what symbolizes mindfulness?
(a) The crying child.
(b) Buddha.
(c) The reader.
(d) The mother.

8. What term means "the essence of a person's true nature"?
(a) Ego.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Interbeing.
(d) Suchness.

9. Which river, supposedly, contains enough chemicals to develop photographs?
(a) The Rhine River.
(b) The Charles River.
(c) The Mississippi River.
(d) The Nile River.

10. What is the Buddhist term for understanding completely?
(a) Non-duality.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Comprehension.
(d) Totality.

11. What three concepts can be included in family life that will promote inner peace?
(a) Reading rooms, family altar, and mindful dinners.
(b) Breathing room, media room, and mindful dinners.
(c) Meditation sessions, meditation rooms, and mindful dinners.
(d) Music room, reading room, and conscious breathing.

12. Which of these dissolves anger?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Compassion.

13. According to Hanh, what happens to anger when one pounds a pillow?
(a) It subsides temporarily.
(b) It is negated.
(c) It subsides completely.
(d) It becomes more intense.

14. According to Hanh, which of the following are feelings that are experienced by humans during life?
(a) Harmless and harmful.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Love and fear.
(d) Pleasant and neutral.

15. What is Hanh's definition of compassion?
(a) Understanding why another is suffering.
(b) Offering to help in another's suffering.
(c) The ability to remove suffering from another person.
(d) Feeling the intensity of another's suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it more possible for one to sustain action for a worthy cause?

2. Why is living in the present essential after experiencing negative feelings?

3. In Hanh's analogy of viruses and antibodies, what role(s) do the negative seeds play?

4. What gift does holding a grandchild give to the grandparent?

5. What groups comprise large family units, which for the most part, have now disbanded?

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