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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 is the person that it was most difficult for Archbishop Tutu to personally forgive in his own life?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His cousin.

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

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

4. Who is one of Archbishop Tutu's favorite mystics, mentioned in Part IV?
(a) Mason of Mowrey.
(b) Robert of Locksley.
(c) Freeman of Gelburn.
(d) Julian of Norwich.

5. Who was a college classmate of Abrams's who was killed in South Africa?
(a) Robin Gillson.
(b) Mary Robinson.
(c) Gene Rowland.
(d) Amy Biehl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What key paradox of Buddhism does Abrams point out in the section titled Acceptance: The Only Place?

3. What does Abrams say acceptance is the opposite of?

4. What kind of a world does Brother Steindl-Rast say a grateful world is?

5. Which primatologist believes that peace-making activities are extremely common in the animal kingdom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

10. In Part III, what is the paradox of humility?

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