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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 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.

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

3. What else must exist for wealth to be possible in the world?
(a) Peace.
(b) Education.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hanh, what would improve the power of hugging?

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

3. After realizing that the person expressing anger has experienced abuse, illness, or a setback, what can one learn to feel?

4. Why does looking into his own hand keep the man from feeling lonely?

5. According to Hanh in "Mindfulness of Anger", what kind of problems does anger create?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. In "Understanding" Hanh explains that understanding and love are one thing. Why can the two not be separated?

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

6. 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?

7. How does the article "Investing in Friends" demonstrate Hanh's teaching on achieving world peace?

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

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

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

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