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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. 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.

2. What did the Dalai Lama say he learned on a flight from Japan to San Francisco?
(a) The hospitality that flight attendants are expected to project.
(b) The human capacity for forgiveness.
(c) The enduring pleasures of a hot towel over one's eyes.
(d) The enormous patience it takes to be a parent.

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

4. What did the Buddha tell the woman who had lost her child in the Dalai Lama's story?
(a) To give her life to God, and this would make her happy.
(b) To find another child to raise in her first child's place.
(c) To find mustard seeds from a house that had not been touched by death. When she could not, she realized she was not alone in her suffering.
(d) To pray at her child's gravestone and he would rise again.

5. What does Archbishop Tutu say is the difference between hope and optimism?
(a) Children are more likely to be optimists but adults are more likely to hope.
(b) Optimism spreads more easily than hope.
(c) Optimism is more superficial, while hope is deeper and more enduring.
(d) Hope is more related to faith than optimism is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news program profiled the person Abrams thinks embodies the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?

2. What is the dessert that the Dalai Lama most enjoys?

3. Which American civil rights leader is one of Archbishop Tutu's heroes?

4. Where was Abrams driving with Archbishop Tutu a decade before the publication of the book when they became stuck in traffic?

5. In Part III, a Tibetan goes that adversities can turn into which of the following?

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