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

2. What is the basis for real strength when one tries to make a change in the world?
(a) Power.
(b) Courage.
(c) Deep inner peace.
(d) Wealth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique discussed in "Cooking the Potato" transforms anger into a positive force?

2. What else must exist for wealth to be possible in the world?

3. What happens when one is cut off from nature?

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

5. According to Hanh, what are most individuals willing to find out about an issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Buddhist concept of "interbeing?" Hanh gives an example of interbeing by stating that poverty cannot exist without wealth. Give at least two other similar examples.

2. How is Hanh's Buddhist faith reintroduced in "Internal Formations"? What is a common analogy to this teaching?

3. Explain the Buddhist concept of non-duality. Give an example.

4. Why should one meditate on an individual who has caused personal pain?

5. In "The Art of Mindful Living" Hanh remarks again about environmental issues. How can mindful living help environmental efforts?

6. Why is Hanh surprised to find that the Charles River is not a safe place to wash one's face? According to Hanh, how can dead rivers be resurrected?

7. According to Hanh in "Mindfulness of Anger", anger is the root of self-control problems. How does anger take away our mindfulness? Why would its power lead to one being out of control?

8. Why is it impossible to drop all of one's identity from the parents?

9. What must happen to the knots before peace can be found?

10. What counting analogy could be compared to Hanh's breathing mindfully when one feels anger rising?

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