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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the Dalai Lama say is the advantage to having something go wrong?
(a) It helps people laugh more.
(b) It reminds us of the uncertainty of life.
(c) People drop their pretenses and act more normal, easing the tension.
(d) It helps people to try to solve problems together.

4. What does Abrams write that he is tempted to see humor as a universal index of?
(a) Humility.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Spiritual development.

5. Which of the following pillars of joy is a quality of the mind?
(a) Humility.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Education.

6. What did the Dalai Lama say he learned on a flight from Japan to San Francisco?
(a) The human capacity for forgiveness.
(b) The hospitality that flight attendants are expected to project.
(c) The enduring pleasures of a hot towel over one's eyes.
(d) The enormous patience it takes to be a parent.

7. Who is the Dalai Lama's friend from Northern Ireland who he thinks embodies the spirit of forgiveness?
(a) Amanda Richardson.
(b) Perry Gordimer.
(c) Richard Moore.
(d) Michaela Robinson.

8. What does the Archbishop say is the natural response when someone hits you?
(a) To tell someone else about being hit.
(b) To want to hit that person back.
(c) To forgive that person.
(d) To plot revenge on that person that is worse than what that person did to you.

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

10. 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 quickly the week went by.
(b) How many people showed up for the interviews.
(c) How much of the week was spent laughing.
(d) How much praying was done.

11. What story did Archbishop Tutu use in Rwanda to help make people there laugh in the midst of great pain?
(a) He told a story about musical bears to make people laugh.
(b) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.
(d) He told a story about fishing and worms to make people laugh.

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

13. What is the dessert that Archbishop Tutu most enjoys?
(a) Meringues.
(b) Key lime pie.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Rum raisin ice cream.

14. Why are some people afraid of receiving compassion from others, according to Abrams?
(a) Because they do not really want to be happy.
(b) Because they are more inclined to worry.
(c) Because they think people will want something in return.
(d) Because they do not feel worthy of love and attention.

15. What is the dessert that the Dalai Lama most enjoys?
(a) Lemon meringue pie.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) Blueberry pie.
(d) Tibetan rice pudding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Mpho Tutu get stripped of her ministry in South Africa?

3. When did the first Democratic election in South Africa take place?

4. Why does the Dalai Lama say he would prefer hell to heaven?

5. What beverage does Archbishop Tutu have a fondness for?

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