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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 is the Tibetan word for envy?
(a) Mudita.
(b) Bonfen.
(c) Suka.
(d) Trakdok.

2. What question does the Dalai Lama advise someone struggling with anger to ask herself?
(a) How can I forgive myself?
(b) What is its use?
(c) How can I forgive this person?
(d) How can I best enact revenge on this person?

3. Which American civil rights leader is one of Archbishop Tutu's heroes?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Robert F. Kennedy.
(d) Bayard Rustin.

4. What color is the Dalai Lama's traditional robe?
(a) Navy blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Maroon.

5. What phrase of the Dalai Lama's regarding handling difficulties in life is Abrams particularly struck by in Part III?
(a) Handling the stone.
(b) Passing through difficulties.
(c) Finding your inner strength.
(d) Rising to the occasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama recall the Tibetan saying about wisdom says?

2. What is Archbishop Tutu's great regret regarding his father?

3. What does the Dalai Lama say he goes through when he prays five times each day?

4. What story did Archbishop Tutu use in Rwanda to help make people there laugh in the midst of great pain?

5. What does the Dalai Lama advise people to think about so that they will never feel lonely?

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