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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?
(a) To let our guard down and better understand others.
(b) To increase the hope in our lives.
(c) To connect to the Superego.
(d) To eventually change our behavior.

2. What is equanimity?
(a) Being happy.
(b) Being sad.
(c) Creating a happy space.
(d) Being okay.

3. What does Chodron write about categorizing things into "for" and "against"?
(a) Harder than focusing exclusively on the negative.
(b) Efficient.
(c) Making it more difficult to find joy.
(d) Narrowing the mind.

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

5. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?
(a) Emotions.
(b) The humiliation of past mistakes.
(c) Misunderstandings.
(d) Poor relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the two witnesses does Chodron say we should hold?

2. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?

3. In practicing compassion, who is the first person we aspire to feel compassion for?

4. Why does Chodron claim that the practice of bodhichitta increases our joy?

5. What are the three noble principles?

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