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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. Who is the Dalai Lama's longtime translator?
(a) Thupten Jinpa.
(b) Hoy Nguyen.
(c) Roman Fellows.
(d) Jasmine Jorge.
2. Why are some people afraid of receiving compassion from others, according to Abrams?
(a) Because they think people will want something in return.
(b) Because they do not feel worthy of love and attention.
(c) Because they are more inclined to worry.
(d) Because they do not really want to be happy.
3. Abrams begins Part IV of the book by saying which of the following was one of the most stunning aspects of the week he spent with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu?
(a) How many people showed up for the interviews.
(b) How much praying was done.
(c) How much of the week was spent laughing.
(d) How quickly the week went by.
4. What is Archbishop Tutu's great regret regarding his father?
(a) He never told his father he knew that his father had loved him.
(b) He never told his father he would never forgive him.
(c) He never told his father he loved him.
(d) He turned down his father's request to talk very shortly before his father died.
5. What does the Dalai Lama think of when he considers the act of eating?
(a) Eating only sustainable crops.
(b) Nourishing the body as opposed to eating out of greed.
(c) His refusal to eat pork or beef, but his affinity for chicken.
(d) His status as a strict vegetarian.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the Dalai Lama recall the Tibetan saying about wisdom says?
2. Which primatologist believes that peace-making activities are extremely common in the animal kingdom?
3. Who is the South African leader Tutu speaks admiringly of and at length in Part I?
4. According to the Dalai Lama, an excess of which of the following often causes stress?
5. What did the Buddha tell the woman who had lost her child in the Dalai Lama's story?
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