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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 are the fruits of meditation?
(a) Mindfulness, clarity, and patience.
(b) Clarity, determination, and patience.
(c) Peace, joy, and clarity.
(d) Clarity, determination, and peace.

2. After realizing that the person expressing anger has experienced abuse, illness, or a setback, what can one learn to feel?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Hate.
(c) Peace.
(d) Love.

3. In Hanh's analogy of viruses and antibodies, what role(s) do the negative seeds play?
(a) Viruses.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Either.
(d) Neither.

4. What technique discussed in "Cooking the Potato" transforms anger into a positive force?
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Mediation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most individuals unwilling to do about an issue?

2. What facilities for gatherings does Hanh recommend for replacing the large family units?

3. What does Hanh consider to be one's "second heart"?

4. According to Hanh, which of the following are feelings that are experienced by humans during life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What instructions on meditating does Hanh give the reader in "Meditation on Compassion"? Why would it be more beneficial to meditate on someone who is obviously suffering?

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

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

4. What lesson does Hanh teach the reader in "Mindfulness Must be Engaged"?

5. 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.

6. What effect does conscious breathing have on a hug? Why?

7. According to Hanh, how should an individual treat parents concerning their mistakes?

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

9. What two types of seeds does consciousness include? Explain the relationship between the two. Why is it important to plant positive seeds?

10. In "The River of Feelings", what three types of feelings are discussed? Should one feeling be approached differently than another? Why or why not?

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