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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author characterize meditation?
(a) As difficult but rewarding.
(b) As the only path to a life free from suffering.
(c) As a great way to increase productivity,
(d) As simple and fun.

2. Who are the best teachers in teaching us to rejoice in the good fortune of others?
(a) Children.
(b) People with power over us.
(c) Difficult people.
(d) The elderly.

3. What are the four limitless qualities?
(a) Change, Suffering, discomfort, and lack.
(b) Loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
(c) Material things, ideas, barriers of the self, and barriers of others.
(d) Hope, generosity, love, and relaxation.

4. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. What does Chodron argue happens when we harm others?
(a) We only feel momentary relief from our own struggle.
(b) We also harm ourselves.
(c) We receive bad karma.
(d) We see ourselves in a negative light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?

2. Who is Jarvis Masters?

3. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?

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

5. What is the fifth step in the formal practice of maitri?

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