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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 215 - 289).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pillars of joy are there?
(a) 4.
(b) 16.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

2. What disease did Archbishop Tutu have to go to a special hospital to be treated for when he was a child?
(a) Ebola.
(b) Yellow Fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Malaria.

3. What does the Dalai Lama advise people to think about so that they will never feel lonely?
(a) Everyone has at least one friend.
(b) There are seven billion people on the planet.
(c) You are never alone if God is in your life.
(d) You can always find a pet to keep you company.

4. In what year did the Dalai Lama leave Tibet?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1942.

5. What does the Archbishop say is the natural response when someone hits you?
(a) To forgive that person.
(b) To plot revenge on that person that is worse than what that person did to you.
(c) To tell someone else about being hit.
(d) To want to hit that person back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What key paradox of Buddhism does Abrams point out in the section titled Acceptance: The Only Place?

2. Which of the following pillars of joy is a quality of the mind?

3. What kind of a world does Brother Steindl-Rast say a grateful world is?

4. What does Archbishop Tutu say is the difference between hope and optimism?

5. What does Jinpa point out that modern society has prioritized, to the detriment of society as a whole?

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