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

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

3. Why are some people afraid of receiving compassion from others, according to Abrams?
(a) Because they do not feel worthy of love and attention.
(b) Because they think people will want something in return.
(c) Because they do not really want to be happy.
(d) Because they are more inclined to worry.

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

5. Who is the Dalai Lama's friend from Northern Ireland who he thinks embodies the spirit of forgiveness?
(a) Richard Moore.
(b) Perry Gordimer.
(c) Michaela Robinson.
(d) Amanda Richardson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama say happens to people who have no difficulties and are always relaxed?

2. What does Archbishop Tutu greet almost every new experience with?

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

4. What does Abrams say acceptance is the opposite of?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part IV, who is the person in Archbishop Tutu's life that has caused him some of the deepest personal pain and why?

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 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?

4. 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?

5. In Part III, what does Abrams's own father say after his terrible experience of traumatic brain injury?

6. In Part IV, what does the Dalai Lama say he learned on his flight from Japan to San Francisco in sitting next to a mother with young children?

7. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say about his feelings about his own safety and security in Dharamsala?

8. In Part IV, what does Abrams explain as a core paradox of happiness?

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

10. 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?

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