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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Eating Mindfully", what is the purpose of eating?
2. What is essential to productivity?
3. Who nominates Hanh for the 1966 Nobel Prize?
4. What is the goal of meditation?
5. What enables one to become a real person?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Driving Meditation" Hanh encourages the reader to view his or her vehicle as his or herself and to control the vehicle as such. How would conscious breathing facilitate one's control of a vehicle?
2. What qualities does the dandelion possess that makes it a good choice as the recipient of lost smiles?
3. Explore the analogy of a new day being a gift to every being. Include details on how gifts are usually anticipated and acknowledged.
4. Who is Thomas Merton? What is Merton's opinion of Hanh?
5. According to Hanh, what is an inappropriate use for meditation? What harm might be possible from using it inappropriately?
6. What Christian belief does Hanh refute in his article "Hope as an Obstacle"? Why is it important that Hanh included a Christian belief in his book?
7. How is Hanh's image as a forward thinker strengthened in "Driving Meditation"? How does his image affect his peers? What theme from the book is extended through the anecdote?
8. What are the benefits of conscious breathing?
9. How does the term departmentalization apply to most people's attitude towards meditation? Why is the attitude incorrect? How can society benefit by an attitude adjustment?
10. In what year does Hanh first visit the United States? For what purpose? Why does he leave in 1963?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the analogy between departmentalization and going to church on Sundays?
Essay Topic 2
Using Hanh's article "Transforming Feelings" as a resource, explain how anger, if left unchecked, can destroy the suffering, yet leave the aggressor unscathed.
Essay Topic 3
A familiar adage which refers to stress in an individual is all tied up in knots. Compare/contrast the adage with the Buddhist's concept of "internal formations.
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