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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 does Edith Eva Eger say was the only think that kept people in the WWII concentration camps alive?
(a) Spiritual guidance.
(b) The acceptance of the reality of one's situation and the attempt to form the best response.
(c) Work.
(d) Food.

2. Who does Archbishop Tutu say are usually the hardest for people to forgive?
(a) Those who are their competitors.
(b) Those who are older than them.
(c) Those who are their teachers.
(d) Those closest to them.

3. What does Archbishop Tutu greet almost every new experience with?
(a) The word "wonderful."
(b) Anger.
(c) The word "unexpected."
(d) Fear.

4. What beverage does Archbishop Tutu have a fondness for?
(a) Seltzer water.
(b) Coke Zero.
(c) Orange juice.
(d) Lemonade.

5. What is Archbishop Tutu's great regret regarding his father?
(a) He turned down his father's request to talk very shortly before his father died.
(b) He never told his father he would never forgive him.
(c) He never told his father he knew that his father had loved him.
(d) He never told his father he loved him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the Dalai Lama's friend from Northern Ireland who he thinks embodies the spirit of forgiveness?

4. What does Archbishop Tutu think about developing one's sense of humor?

5. What does Abrams mention his wife's profession is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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