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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which doctor of the Dalai Lama's does Archbishop Tutu see in Dharamsala?
(a) Virgil Maglio.
(b) Benito Murlo.
(c) Morris Forworn.
(d) Yeshi Dhonden.

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

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

4. Why does the Dalai Lama say he would prefer hell to heaven?
(a) He has always liked the heat.
(b) He could solve more problems in hell.
(c) He probably has some good friends there.
(d) The devil will be an interesting creature to meet.

5. What does the term askaris refer to?
(a) Freedom fighters in Northern Ireland.
(b) Members of the Hutu tribe.
(c) Members of the Tutsi tribe.
(d) Members of the African National Congress who turned and supported government forces.

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

7. What does the Dalai Lama recall the Tibetan saying about wisdom says?
(a) Wisdom is like rice - it is better when shared.
(b) Wisdom is like hard work - it yields great benefits.
(c) Wisdom is like storytelling - it requires a group of people to work well.
(d) Wisdom is like rainwater - both gather in low places.

8. How many pillars of joy are there?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

9. What does Abrams mention his wife's profession is?
(a) She is in an integrative physician.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a history professor.
(d) She is a lawyer.

10. 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 cousin.
(d) His daughter.

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

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

13. What was one of the most difficult decisions Archbishop Tutu and his wife had to make during their marriage?
(a) To convert to a different religion.
(b) To send their children to language school in England.
(c) To send their children to boarding school when they moved back to South Africa from England.
(d) To leave South Africa in exile.

14. What does the Dalai Lama say about Archbishop Tutu's father?
(a) He probably did not deserve forgiveness.
(b) He was a kind person, and when he was drunk he was not his true self.
(c) He should have sought treatment treatment for his addiction.
(d) He probably would have asked for forgiveness if he had lived long enough.

15. What is the root of the word humor?
(a) The same as the root for humanity: humus.
(b) The Greek word humira, meaning work.
(c) The Latin word huma, meaning connection.
(d) The Latin word humora, meaning miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a college classmate of Abrams's who was killed in South Africa?

2. What kind of a world does Brother Steindl-Rast say a grateful world is?

3. What does the Dalai Lama say the Virgin Mary is a symbol of?

4. What does Abrams write that he is tempted to see humor as a universal index of?

5. What did the Dalai Lama say he learned on a flight from Japan to San Francisco?

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