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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Archbishop Tutu think about developing one's sense of humor?
(a) It can only be taught by a comedian.
(b) It can only be taught by one's parents.
(c) It is a skill to be cultivated.
(d) It is innate.

3. What is Archbishop Tutu's great regret regarding his father?
(a) He never told his father he loved him.
(b) He never told his father he knew that his father had loved him.
(c) He never told his father he would never forgive him.
(d) He turned down his father's request to talk very shortly before his father died.

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

5. Who is one of Archbishop Tutu's favorite mystics, mentioned in Part IV?
(a) Mason of Mowrey.
(b) Robert of Locksley.
(c) Freeman of Gelburn.
(d) Julian of Norwich.

6. What famous honor did both Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama both receive?
(a) The Pulitzer Prize.
(b) The Congressional Medal of Freedom.
(c) The Best in Faith Profiles Award.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

7. Who does Archbishop say is good at keeping him humble?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

8. What position did Nelson Mandela hold when he was imprisoned on Robben Island?
(a) Commander in Chief of the Military Wing of the ANC.
(b) President of South Africa.
(c) Chairperson of the Freedom Fighters.
(d) Chief Architect of Capetown.

9. What does the Dalai Lama say the Buddha's first teaching is?
(a) The importance of fighting our own anger.
(b) The inevitability of jealousy.
(c) The inevitability of suffering and the transient nature of existence.
(d) The importance of gratitude.

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

11. What does Jinpa say is the true measure of spiritual development?
(a) How angry one is.
(b) How grateful one is.
(c) How one confront's one's own mortality.
(d) How self-aware one is.

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

13. What does Abrams say acceptance is the opposite of?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Resignation and defeat.
(d) Loneliness.

14. What was the Dalai Lama disguised in when he fled from Tibet in 1959?
(a) A Tibetan doctor's clothing.
(b) A priest's clothing.
(c) A Tibetan soldier's clothing.
(d) Tibetan layman's clothes.

15. In Part III, what does Abrams say the Archbishop's trip to India is bookended by?
(a) Graduations.
(b) Birthday parties.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Funerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the Dalai Lama's home?

2. What does the Dalai Lama consume in Part III that he almost never ingests?

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

4. What does the Dalai Lama say is first necessary before one can bestow kindness on someone else?

5. What news program profiled the person Abrams thinks embodies the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?

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