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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the phrase meaning the unsatisfactory nature of pursuing pleasure?
(a) The lost cause.
(b) The hedonic treadmill.
(c) The moving target.
(d) The roman dinner.

2. What does the Archbishop say brings most people's greatest joy?
(a) When we seek to do good for others.
(b) When we honor others at funerals.
(c) When we send our children to school.
(d) When we pray.

3. What did the Buddha tell the woman who had lost her child in the Dalai Lama's story?
(a) To find mustard seeds from a house that had not been touched by death. When she could not, she realized she was not alone in her suffering.
(b) To give her life to God, and this would make her happy.
(c) To pray at her child's gravestone and he would rise again.
(d) To find another child to raise in her first child's place.

4. Which researcher found that mild sadness can have some surprising benefits?
(a) Francine Swede.
(b) Joseph Forgas.
(c) Sanglen Fonard.
(d) Julia Mills.

5. What role did Archbishop Tutu play in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa?
(a) He was chairperson.
(b) He was the lawyer called in to mediate discussions.
(c) He was the note-taker.
(d) He was the faith healer there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neuropsychiatrist's work does Abrams quote in Part II about anger?

2. Who does Tutu bring with him to visit the Dalai Lama?

3. How many siblings did the Dalai Lama have who died in infancy?

4. Who is Archbishop Tutu's wife?

5. What does Abrams's friend Gordon Wheeler say grief is the reminder of?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, what do the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu agree is necessary for the creation of something beautiful?

2. In Part II, what is the meaning of the word "dukkha?"

3. In Part I, what does Archbishop Tutu say ultimately leads to people's greatest experiences of joy?

4. In Part I, how does Abrams explain the so-called hedonic treadmill?

5. In Part II, what does the Dalai Lama identify as the connection between fear and anger?

6. In Part II, what does the Dalai Lama say that stress and anxiety in modern life are often caused by?

7. In Part II, what distinction does Archbishop Tutu draw between hope and optimism?

8. In the Introduction, what distinction does Tutu make between joy and happiness?

9. In Part I, what kind of relationship does the Dalai Lama tell Archbishop Tutu he considers their relationship to be a bit like?

10. In Part II, what is the main difference between how the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu advise people to handle feelings of envy?

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