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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama say happens to people who have no difficulties and are always relaxed?
(a) They eat more.
(b) They work less.
(c) They complain more.
(d) They go to the library more.

2. What book did Archbishop Tutu and his daughter write about forgiveness?
(a) The Book of Forgiving.
(b) Forgiving and Forgetting.
(c) Forgiving is Freedom.
(d) The Art of Forgiving.

3. What does the Dalai Lama say he goes through when he prays five times each day?
(a) Incense.
(b) Many candles.
(c) A symbolic death and rebirth cycle.
(d) Prayer mats.

4. What disease did Archbishop Tutu have to go to a special hospital to be treated for when he was a child?
(a) Ebola.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Yellow Fever.

5. What does Archbishop Tutu greet almost every new experience with?
(a) The word "wonderful."
(b) The word "unexpected."
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

6. What does Jinpa say there is no room for in life when one becomes a refugee?
(a) Pretense.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

7. What did researcher Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues discover about people's happiness when they spend money?
(a) People are happiest spending money going out to dinner.
(b) People are happier spending money on less expensive things for themselves than they are spending money on more expensive things.
(c) People are happier spending money on others than they are spending it on themselves in some studies.
(d) People are happier the more money they spend on themselves.

8. What color is the Dalai Lama's home?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

9. What does the Dalai Lama say the Virgin Mary is a symbol of?
(a) Love.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Sacrifice.

10. Why did Mpho Tutu get stripped of her ministry in South Africa?
(a) She moved to another country.
(b) She wanted to change the rules of the church too radically.
(c) She said a prayer the church did not approve of.
(d) She married a partner of the same sex.

11. What is the Dalai Lama's hall hung with?
(a) Prayer pages.
(b) Letters from followers.
(c) Tapestries that show scenes of Rome.
(d) Bright thankgkas.

12. Who is the person that it was most difficult for Archbishop Tutu to personally forgive in his own life?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His cousin.

13. Why does the Dalai Lama say impermanence happens?
(a) Because of interdependence.
(b) Because of disease.
(c) Because of gratitude.
(d) Because of anger.

14. What does the Dalai Lama say forgiveness does not include?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Forgetting a wrong.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Certainty.

15. How old was the Dalai Lama when he escaped from Tibet to India?
(a) 24.
(b) 16.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of perspective does the Dalai Lama urge his followers to try to take?

2. What does Archbishop Tutu think about developing one's sense of humor?

3. What was the Dalai Lama disguised in when he fled from Tibet in 1959?

4. In Part III, what does Abrams say the Archbishop's trip to India is bookended by?

5. According to Abrams, what is generosity the natural outgrowth of?

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