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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. Who does Abrams cite as a powerful example of the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Michael Riley.
(c) Marlon Brando.
(d) Anthony Ray Hinton.

2. Which of the following is a pillar of the heart?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Patience.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Grief.

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

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

5. How many pillars of joy are there?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Archbishop Tutu say are usually the hardest for people to forgive?

2. What does the Dalai Lama consume in Part III that he almost never ingests?

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

4. What does the Dalai Lama say the Virgin Mary is a symbol of?

5. What phrase of the Dalai Lama's regarding handling difficulties in life is Abrams particularly struck by in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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 explain as a core paradox of happiness?

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

9. 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?

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

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