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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kind of perspective does the Dalai Lama urge his followers to try to take?
(a) More intellectual.
(b) Wider or larger.
(c) Narrower.
(d) More colorful.

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

7. What phrase of the Dalai Lama's regarding handling difficulties in life is Abrams particularly struck by in Part III?
(a) Handling the stone.
(b) Finding your inner strength.
(c) Passing through difficulties.
(d) Rising to the occasion.

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

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

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

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

12. In Buddhism, who are one's most precious spiritual teachers?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Parents.
(d) Enemies.

13. What does Archbishop Tutu say is necessary for two friends to be able to joke easily with one another?
(a) Trust.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Regret.
(d) Sadness.

14. Who was a college classmate of Abrams's who was killed in South Africa?
(a) Robin Gillson.
(b) Amy Biehl.
(c) Mary Robinson.
(d) Gene Rowland.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the dessert that Archbishop Tutu most enjoys?

3. According to Abrams, what is self-compassion closely linked to?

4. How does Abrams's friend Daniel Goldman characterize the Dalai Lama's attitude towards life?

5. In what year did the Dalai Lama start making pilgrimages to different religious traditions?

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