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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can happen when one observes parents with compassion?
(a) One can avoid repeating the cycle.
(b) One can understand the wrongs of the parents.
(c) One finds joy and peace.
(d) One can forgive them their wrongs.

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

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

4. 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 needs to reach only a few to have an effect on many.
(b) Mindful living is a tool that must be actively used.
(c) Mindful living will naturally flow to the masses.
(d) Mindful living is intended to create peace for one individual.

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

6. Why is living in the present essential after experiencing negative feelings?
(a) Knots can help solve the issue.
(b) Knots can be identified as they form.
(c) Knots will dissipate the anger.
(d) Knots disappear.

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

8. How can one find peace and love when feeling angry?
(a) By recognizing that anger is fleeting.
(b) By ignoring the anger.
(c) By recognizing anger as a source of positive energy.
(d) By acting on the feeling of anger.

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

10. According to Hanh in "Mindfulness of Anger", what kind of problems does anger create?
(a) Health problems.
(b) Self-control problems.
(c) Relationship problems.
(d) Self-esteem problems.

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

12. Who used mindful living in Vietnam to act on the suffering of others?
(a) The author and his monastic fellows.
(b) The South Vietnamese.
(c) The author.
(d) The Dalai Lama.

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

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

15. What do positive seeds produce?
(a) Peace.
(b) Mindful living.
(c) More positive seeds.
(d) Happy thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Buddhist term for understanding completely?

2. In which river did the author wash his face?

3. Which of these is NOT a component for the extension of mindful living into the world?

4. In "Transforming Feelings", who/what is analogous to emotion?

5. What would have prevented the tremendous amount of destruction in Vietnam?

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