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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 maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?
(a) "Learning through questions."
(b) "Placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving kindness."
(c) "Avoiding hurting others to avoid feeling alone."
(d) "Being our own mother."

2. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
(a) Yoga.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Bodhichitta.
(d) Nirvana.

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

4. What is the first lord of materialism?
(a) Personal style.
(b) Function.
(c) Form.
(d) Sensuality.

5. What is the final step of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) Teaching others what we have learned.
(b) Expanding our loving kindness to all others.
(c) Understanding that our own perspective is limited.
(d) Listening to our heart in total silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What upset the woman who was always late in Chodron's story?

2. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?

3. What is the traditional aspiration used in formal maitri training?

4. What does Chodron write we cannot do without loving-kindness for ourselves?

5. What does Chodron argue happens when we harm others?

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