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

2. On what date did the Dalai Lama remember that spontaneous protests began in Tibet in the 2000s?
(a) May 30, 2009.
(b) December 7, 2007.
(c) March 10, 2008.
(d) July 25, 2006.

3. What does Abrams write that he is tempted to see humor as a universal index of?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Humility.
(d) Spiritual development.

4. 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.

5. Abrams writes that generosity is not just about giving money but also about giving which of the following?
(a) Time.
(b) Attention.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dessert that the Dalai Lama most enjoys?

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

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

4. What did researcher Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues discover about people's happiness when they spend money?

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. In Part III, what does Jinpa say is the true measure of spiritual development?

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 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 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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