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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. Why does the Dalai Lama say he would prefer hell to heaven?
(a) He has always liked the heat.
(b) He probably has some good friends there.
(c) He could solve more problems in hell.
(d) The devil will be an interesting creature to meet.

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

3. What does Archbishop Tutu say is necessary for two friends to be able to joke easily with one another?
(a) Regret.
(b) Trust.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Empathy.

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

5. What does Abrams say acceptance is the opposite of?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Resignation and defeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which part of the brain do some researchers think gratitude stimulates?

3. In Buddhism, who are one's most precious spiritual teachers?

4. What does Edith Eva Eger say was the only think that kept people in the WWII concentration camps alive?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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 is the paradox of humility?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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