View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which primatologist believes that peace-making activities are extremely common in the animal kingdom?
(a) Frans de Waal.
(b) Rachel Carson.
(c) Jane Goodall.
(d) Francine Waters.

2. What is the Buddhist tradition of eating that the Dalai Lama follows?
(a) He eats only snacks all day.
(b) He eats only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner.
(c) He eats just one meal a day, lunch.
(d) He eats three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

3. What does Jinpa say is the true measure of spiritual development?
(a) How grateful one is.
(b) How angry one is.
(c) How self-aware one is.
(d) How one confront's one's own mortality.

4. What is a mantra that the Dalai Lama say Buddhists recite often?
(a) Mani Padme Hum.
(b) Mani Romana.
(c) Dar Es Salaam.
(d) Mudra Buta.

5. Who was a college classmate of Abrams's who was killed in South Africa?
(a) Amy Biehl.
(b) Mary Robinson.
(c) Gene Rowland.
(d) Robin Gillson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Dalai Lama references a study in Part III that linked a greater risk of heart attack to which of the following?

3. What is one meditation practice that can help one face one's own mortality?

4. What does the Dalai Lama say is first necessary before one can bestow kindness on someone else?

5. What kind of traditional beads do followers of the Dalai Lama use to pray?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 310 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample