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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chitta translate?
(a) As relaxation.
(b) As love, heart, and affection.
(c) As mind, heart, or attitude.
(d) As mind or thought.

2. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?
(a) Learning how much money he could make from students.
(b) Hearing that it cured a man from an incurable illness.
(c) The urging of his own spiritual teacher.
(d) Seeing their effect on his brother.

3. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "essentially good."
(b) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(c) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."
(d) As "loving and generous at its very core."

4. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) As health.
(b) As dream, hope, and illusion.
(c) As effort or work.
(d) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.

5. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
(a) From India to Latin America.
(b) From Tibet to Japan.
(c) From China to India.
(d) From India to Tibet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?

2. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?

3. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?

4. What hope does Chodron write that we should abandon?

5. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?

(see the answer key)

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