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

2. What is the root of the word humor?
(a) The Latin word huma, meaning connection.
(b) The Latin word humora, meaning miracle.
(c) The same as the root for humanity: humus.
(d) The Greek word humira, meaning work.

3. What does Jinpa say there is no room for in life when one becomes a refugee?
(a) Anger.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Pretense.
(d) Fear.

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

5. Why did Mpho Tutu get stripped of her ministry in South Africa?
(a) She moved to another country.
(b) She married a partner of the same sex.
(c) She wanted to change the rules of the church too radically.
(d) She said a prayer the church did not approve of.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Abrams, what is generosity the natural outgrowth of?

3. In Part III, a Tibetan goes that adversities can turn into which of the following?

4. When did the first Democratic election in South Africa take place?

5. How many children were to attend the Dalai Lama's 80th birthday party at the Tibetan Village?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. In Part IV, what does Brother David Steindl-Rast say about the relationship between gratitude and happiness?

6. In Part III, what specific advice does the Dalai Lama offer about changing one's perspective for the better?

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

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 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?

10. In Part IV, what does Abrams say is necessary in order for people to feel present in each moment?

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