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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does looking into his own hand keep the man from feeling lonely?
(a) He remembers his faith.
(b) He realizes all things are connected.
(c) He remembers his mother.
(d) He is reminded of his place in the universe.

3. What is Hanh's attitude towards the Western cultures' treatment of parents?
(a) He is elated.
(b) He is saddened.
(c) He is tolerant.
(d) He is infuriated.

4. What seeds do most individuals focus on in their lives?
(a) Negative seeds.
(b) Positive and negative seeds.
(c) Positive seeds.
(d) No seeds.

5. What must be one's approach towards nature for survival?
(a) Awe.
(b) Non-duality.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Honor.

6. What do large family units provide?
(a) Acceptance of the elderly.
(b) Less stressful environment for working parents.
(c) Childcare while parents work.
(d) Safety for children of suffering parents.

7. What should mindful living not do?
(a) Insulate one from all suffering.
(b) Blind one from seeing real problems in the world.
(c) Try to cure all suffering.
(d) Intrude on others' beliefs.

8. According to Hanh, when must one recognize negative feelings?
(a) Before they arise.
(b) When faced with a decision.
(c) When one has emotional support.
(d) When they arise.

9. How many years does it take for nuclear waste to become a flower?
(a) Infinitely many.
(b) One half of a million.
(c) One million.
(d) One quarter of a million.

10. How should individuals react to unpleasant feelings?
(a) Reject the emotions.
(b) Face the emotions.
(c) Ignore the emotions.
(d) Cling to the emotions.

11. In "Mindfulness Must Be Engaged", what does Hanh remind readers of concerning the extension of mindful living from one person to the world?
(a) Mindful living is a tool that must be actively used.
(b) Mindful living needs to reach only a few to have an effect on many.
(c) Mindful living will naturally flow to the masses.
(d) Mindful living is intended to create peace for one individual.

12. Who/what lives thanks to the "second heart"?
(a) Plants.
(b) The suffering masses.
(c) Stars.
(d) Children.

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

14. According to Hanh's "Look into Your Hand", what can be found in a single person?
(a) Spirit.
(b) All things.
(c) Essence.
(d) Being.

15. 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) Pleasant and neutral.
(d) Love and fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do negative feelings leave behind if they are not faced?

2. What reason does Hanh give for the abuse of children at their own parents' hands?

3. What is the basis for real strength when one tries to make a change in the world?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 51, Hanh introduces the word interbeing. What is the meaning of this word?

5. What connection is made to one's parents as one looks in a mirror?

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