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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) Sadness.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Power.

2. What news program profiled the person Abrams thinks embodies the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?
(a) 60 Minutes.
(b) CBS This Morning.
(c) Nightline.
(d) Entertainment Tonight.

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 musical bears to make people laugh.
(b) He told a story about fishing and worms to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.
(d) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.

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

5. What disease did Archbishop Tutu have to go to a special hospital to be treated for when he was a child?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow Fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the Dalai Lama say about Archbishop Tutu's father?

4. Which of the following pillars of joy is a quality of the mind?

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

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 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. In Part III, why does the Dalai Lama jokingly say he prefers to go to hell?

10. 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?

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