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

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

3. 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 small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering 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 fishing and worms to make people laugh.

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

5. How does Abrams's friend Daniel Goldman characterize the Dalai Lama's attitude towards life?
(a) He says the Dalai Lama will is a channel for peace.
(b) He says the Dalai Lama is very focused on prayer.
(c) He says the Dalai Lama is a great mentor.
(d) He says the Dalai Lama seems amused by everything going on around him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Dalai Lama say he goes through when he prays five times each day?

3. What injury does Abrams say his own father suffered recently?

4. How many pillars of joy are there?

5. What famous honor did both Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama both receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama advise people to think of suffering as rather than a problem?

2. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say happens when he prays to a certain statue in his home every morning?

3. In Part III, in what way does the Dalai Lama say he considers himself a student at 80 years old?

4. In Part IV, what do Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama emphatically agree that the willingness and ability to forgive are signs of in a person's character?

5. In Part III, what does Abrams identify as two of the greatest sources of suffering in our lives?

6. In Part IV, why did the Dalai Lama laugh so hard when a former Protestant militant in Belfast said the loyalists had always taught him Jesus was Protestant and not Catholic?

7. In Part IV, what does Abrams say is necessary in order for people to feel present in each moment?

8. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say true arrogance is really an indication of?

9. In Part IV, what does Abrams identify as the Dalai Lama's and Archbishop Tutu's default approach to any subject, no matter how painful?

10. In Part IV, who does Abrams cite as an inspiration of what real gratitude looks like, and what were this person's circumstances?

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