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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do we get beyond laziness to open ourselves to bodhichitta?
(a) Physical excercise.
(b) Meditation and other warrior practices.
(c) Think positively.
(d) Work with a teacher.

2. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?
(a) "At least until you die."
(b) "Less time than it does to cultivate unhappiness."
(c) "It will take less time if you start now."
(d) "As long as you make it."

3. What does Chondron claim is the essence of generosity?
(a) Letting go.
(b) Feeling alone, and moving beyond it.
(c) Working.
(d) Hope.

4. What is the second stage in learning to rejoice?
(a) To rejoice in the good fortune of another.
(b) To rejoice about the simplest things possible.
(c) To take time to truly enjoy aspects our routine that are the most normal.
(d) To take joy in our relationships.

5. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "essentially good."
(b) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."
(c) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(d) As "loving and generous at its very core."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jarvis Masters?

2. What ritual did Trungpa Rinpoche teach Chodron could be enjoyed?

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

4. What are the four qualities of maitri?

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

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