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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first step to an aspiration for joy and happiness?
(a) Staying with our meditative process.
(b) Enjoying our thoughts without any effort to change our circumstance.
(c) Enjoying our own good fortune.
(d) Avoiding protests.

2. What is the far enemy of loving-kindness?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Longing.
(d) Anger.

3. What is Maitri?
(a) Acceptance of ourselves.
(b) A Tibetan term for hope.
(c) Deep breath.
(d) Full relaxation.

4. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Sitting meditation.
(c) Lessons from our past experience.
(d) Anger.

5. What aspiration does Chodron recommend to cultivate love and joy?
(a) "May we never be separated from each other, and in our connection find joy and happiness."
(b) "May we all enjoy comfort and joy."
(c) "May I and others find joy in our circumstances as they are."
(d) "May I and others never be separated from the great happiness that is devoid of suffering."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron write about "shoulds" and "should nots"?

2. What do vajrayana Buddhists claim is inherent in emotion?

3. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?

4. Which of the following is one of the three kinds of laziness?

5. Who are the two witnesses that Chodron writes about?

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