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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Love.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Meditation.

3. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?
(a) Do not eat food that will make your mind race.
(b) Relax slowly into meditation, and it will be less strenuous on your body.
(c) Remember only positive moments from the past.
(d) Do not expect applause.

4. How does the author claim that aspirations and affirmations differ?
(a) Chodron claims that aspirations have long been used by Buddhists, but affiirmations have been scientifically studied and documented more.
(b) Chodron writes that in one we try to convince ourselves of something, and in the other we aim to open our hearts.
(c) Chodron claims that they are not different.
(d) Chodron argues that affirmations and aspirations can be used interchangeably in meditation.

5. What does Chodron claim is our relationship to reaching out to others?
(a) She writes that we can do it only with great effort.
(b) She writes that this is our natural inclination.
(c) She argues that there is no point in trying to do this.
(d) She claims that this is always hard work, and never natural for us.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?

2. What does the author argue that we do to sow the seeds of our own suffering?

3. How does Bodhi translate?

4. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?

5. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

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