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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Abrams's friend Daniel Goldman characterize the Dalai Lama's attitude towards life?
2. What does the Dalai Lama say the only danger to him in India is?
3. What does the Dalai Lama say about Archbishop Tutu's father?
4. What does Jinpa say there is no room for in life when one becomes a refugee?
5. According to Abrams, what is self-compassion closely linked to?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part IV, what does Abrams say is necessary in order for people to feel present in each moment?
2. 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?
3. In Part IV, what does Brother David Steindl-Rast say about the relationship between gratitude and happiness?
4. In Part III, why does the Dalai Lama jokingly say he prefers to go to hell?
5. 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?
6. In Part III, what is the paradox of humility?
7. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama advise people to think of suffering as rather than a problem?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. In Part IV, who is the person in Archbishop Tutu's life that has caused him some of the deepest personal pain and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do you think Douglas Abrams' personal relationship - and friendship - with Archbishop Desmond Tutu affected his perspective and his approach to writing The Book of Joy? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How would you explain the so-called "paradox of happiness" that the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu discuss on page 261? Write an essay explaining your answer, and explore how this concept relates to the pillars of joy in general.
Essay Topic 3
What purpose do you think Abrams's frequent citations of scientific evidence and research to support some of the Dalai Lama's and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's claims about emotion and spirituality serve for the reader? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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