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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 does Chodron claim we cultivate through making aspirations?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Hope.
(c) Good health.
(d) Worldly ambition.

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

3. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Chodron.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Martin Luther King.

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

5. Why can our good fortune be hard to miss?
(a) Because of its "ordinariness."
(b) Because society pressures us to have so much that we focus on our lack.
(c) Because it is not "our habitual human behavior."
(d) Because it is easier to focus on negativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?

2. What does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?

3. What is the near enemy of loving-kindness?

4. What is equanimity?

5. How does the author characterize meditation?

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