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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Tibetan word for envy?
(a) Trakdok.
(b) Mudita.
(c) Suka.
(d) Bonfen.
2. In the Introduction, why did it look as if the Archbishop Tutu might not be able to make his travel arrangements to visit the Dalai Lama?
(a) There had been an earthquake recently in India.
(b) His visa might have been revoked.
(c) The weather was very bad.
(d) He had prostate cancer and his doctors might have had to advise him not to travel.
3. How many siblings did the Dalai Lama have who died in infancy?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.
4. What does Abrams's friend Gordon Wheeler say grief is the reminder of?
(a) Our ambition.
(b) Our mistakes.
(c) The depths of our love.
(d) Our capacity for healing.
5. What does Archbishop Tutu think about the nature of humans?
(a) Only the humans that go to church regularly are good.
(b) Humans are mostly good.
(c) Humans need incentives to be good.
(d) About eighty percent of humans are good, and the rest are not very good.
6. Archbishop Tutu says he feels that each individual is which of the following "in the making"?
(a) A monstrosity.
(b) A miracle.
(c) A masterpiece.
(d) A myth.
7. What does the Archbishop say brings most people's greatest joy?
(a) When we seek to do good for others.
(b) When we honor others at funerals.
(c) When we send our children to school.
(d) When we pray.
8. What kind of traditional beads do followers of the Dalai Lama use to pray?
(a) Fijuian.
(b) Bunatan.
(c) Rosary.
(d) Mala.
9. What does the Dalai Lama think of when he considers the act of eating?
(a) His refusal to eat pork or beef, but his affinity for chicken.
(b) Eating only sustainable crops.
(c) His status as a strict vegetarian.
(d) Nourishing the body as opposed to eating out of greed.
10. What did the Buddha tell the woman who had lost her child in the Dalai Lama's story?
(a) To find another child to raise in her first child's place.
(b) To pray at her child's gravestone and he would rise again.
(c) To find mustard seeds from a house that had not been touched by death. When she could not, she realized she was not alone in her suffering.
(d) To give her life to God, and this would make her happy.
11. What is the Buddhist term for the recognition of our interdependence?
(a) Nafala.
(b) Ubuntu.
(c) Swedon.
(d) Raki.
12. In Part I, what does Tutu say is the source of many things that undermine people's joy and happiness?
(a) Lack of education.
(b) Problem of people's own making.
(c) Lack of resources.
(d) Weather and climate issues.
13. What is mental immunity, according to the Dalai Lama?
(a) A special diet meant to fortify the mind.
(b) Learning to avoid the destructive emotions and to develop positive ones.
(c) Thinking of positive imagery to replace negative images in one's mind.
(d) Breathing techniques that offer a person resilience.
14. Where does the Dalai Lama celebrate his eightieth birthday?
(a) His birthplace in Tibet.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) The Tibetan Children's Village in India.
(d) Los Angeles.
15. Why was the Dalai Lama prevented from coming to Tutu's own birthday celebration in South Africa?
(a) He had become too ill to travel.
(b) He could not miss an important religious celebration in the Tibetan Children's Village.
(c) He had to stay behind for an important funeral.
(d) The Chinese government pressured South Africa to deny him the visa he needed for travel.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which country invaded Tibet, causing the Dalai Lama to go into exile in India?
2. Who is one of the world's leading experts on the science of the unconscious?
3. Who was the Dalai Lama's biology "tutor"?
4. Who is Archbishop Tutu's wife?
5. What is the Sanskrit word for suffering?
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