View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 83 - 144).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Sanskrit word for suffering?
(a) Dukkha.
(b) Romulan.
(c) Sukha.
(d) Humus.

2. The Dalai Lama teaches that pain is inevitable, but suffering is which of the following?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Positive.
(d) Optional.

3. What does Archbishop Tutu think about the nature of humans?
(a) Humans are mostly good.
(b) Humans need incentives to be good.
(c) About eighty percent of humans are good, and the rest are not very good.
(d) Only the humans that go to church regularly are good.

4. What does the Archbishop say brings most people's greatest joy?
(a) When we send our children to school.
(b) When we seek to do good for others.
(c) When we honor others at funerals.
(d) When we pray.

5. What is one way to cope with grief and losing loved ones, according to the Dalai Lama?
(a) Finding a general sense of purpose.
(b) Throwing a party of remembrance in the loved one's honor.
(c) Praying for forgiveness for wrongs done to that person.
(d) Setting up a school in the loved one's honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Dalai Lama's residence in exile?

2. How many siblings did the Dalai Lama have who died in infancy?

3. What is the concept of Ubuntu?

4. What is the Buddhist practice of mind training called?

5. In what year did the Dalai Lama leave Tibet?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 249 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample