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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 does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?
(a) Understand the nature of love.
(b) Learn to meditate in less time than any other method.
(c) Remember wisdom at emotional moments.
(d) Become a true warrior.

2. Which answer completes the following quote? "If this process of clear seeing isn't based on self-compassion it will become a process of ______."
(a) Heartbreak.
(b) Increased tension.
(c) Self-aggression.
(d) Losing patience.

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

4. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?
(a) Difficulty in life and diminished hope for the future.
(b) Changing emotions and difficulty focusing.
(c) Neurosis and wisdom.
(d) Anxiety and attention problems.

5. How many near enemies of compassion are there?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) None.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the pirate's name in the traditional Buddhist story about a ship captain and a pirate?

2. What happened to the woman who gave a panhandler a bill outside of a store?

3. What is threefold purity?

4. What is the second stage in learning to rejoice?

5. Which of the following does Chodron claim most of us are not satisfied to do?

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