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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part III, a Tibetan goes that adversities can turn into which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Good opportunities.
(d) Fear.

2. What beverage does Archbishop Tutu have a fondness for?
(a) Seltzer water.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Orange juice.
(d) Coke Zero.

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

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

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

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

7. 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 fishing and worms to make people laugh.
(b) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about musical bears to make people laugh.
(d) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.

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

9. What is the root of the word "humility"?
(a) The Latin word for compassion, humo.
(b) The Greek word for fondness, humira.
(c) The Latin word for earth or soil, humus.
(d) The Greek word for ground, humulus.

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

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

12. 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 much of the week was spent laughing.
(c) How much praying was done.
(d) How many people showed up for the interviews.

13. What does the Dalai Lama say forgiveness is a sign of?
(a) Strength.
(b) Fortitude.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Intelligence.

14. Which part of the brain do some researchers think gratitude stimulates?
(a) The medulla oblongata.
(b) The hypothalamus.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The frontal cortex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Archbishop Tutu say is necessary for two friends to be able to joke easily with one another?

2. Who is the Dalai Lama's friend from Northern Ireland who he thinks embodies the spirit of forgiveness?

3. What is the root of the word humor?

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

5. What is the Dalai Lama's hall hung with?

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