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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 researcher Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues discover about people's happiness when they spend money?
(a) People are happier spending money on others than they are spending it on themselves in some studies.
(b) People are happiest spending money going out to dinner.
(c) People are happier spending money on less expensive things for themselves than they are spending money on more expensive things.
(d) People are happier the more money they spend on themselves.

2. What story did Archbishop Tutu use in Rwanda to help make people there laugh in the midst of great pain?
(a) He told a story about musical bears to make people laugh.
(b) He told a story about fishing and worms to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.
(d) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.

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

4. What does the Dalai Lama say happens to people who have no difficulties and are always relaxed?
(a) They go to the library more.
(b) They work less.
(c) They eat more.
(d) They complain more.

5. According to Abrams, what is generosity the natural outgrowth of?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Power.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Dalai Lama say forgiveness does not include?

5. What does the Dalai Lama say the Buddha's first teaching is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 Dalai Lama's and Archbishop Tutu's default approach to any subject, no matter how painful?

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

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

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

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