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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. According to Abrams, what is generosity the natural outgrowth of?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Power.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Compassion.

2. How many children were to attend the Dalai Lama's 80th birthday party at the Tibetan Village?
(a) About 3,000.
(b) About 1,750.
(c) About 10,000.
(d) About 200.

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

4. What did researcher Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues discover about people's happiness when they spend money?
(a) People are happier spending money on less expensive things for themselves than they are spending money on more expensive things.
(b) People are happiest spending money going out to dinner.
(c) People are happier spending money on others than they are spending it on themselves in some studies.
(d) People are happier the more money they spend on themselves.

5. What famous honor did both Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama both receive?
(a) The Best in Faith Profiles Award.
(b) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(c) The Congressional Medal of Freedom.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the Dalai Lama's home?

2. In Part III, what does Abrams say the Archbishop's trip to India is bookended by?

3. What does Jinpa say is the true measure of spiritual development?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part IV, what does Abrams identify as the so-called first pillar of the heart, and why is it so important?

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

3. In Part III, what is the paradox of humility?

4. In Part IV, what experience of Archbishop Tutu's has the greatest impact on his teachings and philosophies about forgiveness?

5. In Part IV, what does Brother David Steindl-Rast say about the relationship between gratitude and happiness?

6. In Part IV, why does Archbishop Tutu say the ability to laugh at himself has served him well in life and allowed him to connect with people?

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

8. What decision regarding Archbishop Tutu's children created some tension and anguish between Tutu and his wife, Leah?

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

10. 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?

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