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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 291 - 348).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of traditional beads do followers of the Dalai Lama use to pray?
(a) Fijuian.
(b) Mala.
(c) Bunatan.
(d) Rosary.

2. What does Abrams write that he is tempted to see humor as a universal index of?
(a) Humility.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Spiritual development.

3. On the first day of Abrams's interviews with the Dalai Lama and Tutu, what does the Dalai Lama say people are too focused upon?
(a) Cars.
(b) Food.
(c) Religion.
(d) External, materialistic values.

4. What is the Buddhist phrase for taking pleasure in others' good fortune?
(a) Ramala.
(b) Mudita.
(c) Mafala.
(d) Setu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the Dalai Lama's traditional robe?

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

3. What does the Dalai Lama say is the only way to promote the values he and Archbishop Tutu have talked about in this book?

4. How does Abrams's friend Daniel Goldman characterize the Dalai Lama's attitude towards life?

5. What does Abrams write in the Introduction that overshadowed his happy childhood?

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