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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 did the Dalai Lama say he learned on a flight from Japan to San Francisco?
(a) The enduring pleasures of a hot towel over one's eyes.
(b) The human capacity for forgiveness.
(c) The enormous patience it takes to be a parent.
(d) The hospitality that flight attendants are expected to project.

2. Which part of the brain do some researchers think gratitude stimulates?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hypothalamus.
(c) The medulla oblongata.
(d) The frontal cortex.

3. Abrams begins Part IV of the book by saying which of the following was one of the most stunning aspects of the week he spent with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu?
(a) How many people showed up for the interviews.
(b) How much of the week was spent laughing.
(c) How quickly the week went by.
(d) How much praying was done.

4. The Dalai Lama references a study in Part III that linked a greater risk of heart attack to which of the following?
(a) Watching too much television.
(b) The lack of exercise common in Western cultures.
(c) The eating of red meat.
(d) The conversational use of I, me, and mine.

5. What does Abrams mention his wife's profession is?
(a) She is a history professor.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is in an integrative physician.
(d) She is a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are some people afraid of receiving compassion from others, according to Abrams?

2. How does Abrams's friend Daniel Goldman characterize the Dalai Lama's attitude towards life?

3. What does the Dalai Lama recall the Tibetan saying about wisdom says?

4. What does the Dalai Lama say forgiveness is a sign of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say true arrogance is really an indication of?

7. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say happens when he prays to a certain statue in his home every morning?

8. 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?

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

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

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