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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 did the cook from Gambo Alley who was miserable see as she walked unhappily?
(a) An unmarried and attractive man.
(b) A shooting star.
(c) A fox.
(d) A eclipse.

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?
(a) A true teacher.
(b) A master warrior.
(c) A truly centered person.
(d) A person who put love first.

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

4. Why does Chodron claim that the practice of bodhichitta increases our joy?
(a) Because as we meditate on our love for others, we become more kind toward them, ad love becomes a chain of thoughts, beliefs, and actions.
(b) Because it teaches us to be calm, and sitting silently can improve our mood.
(c) Because the Buddha said that this is what would occur.
(d) Because it increases awareness of our basic goodness.

5. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Love, hope, and generosity.
(b) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(c) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(d) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspiration does Chodron recommend to cultivate love and joy?

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

3. What relationship does a Buddhist teaching claim that we have had with all others?

4. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?

5. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?

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