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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(b) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(c) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(d) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.

2. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?
(a) Our own deepest needs.
(b) The four limitless qualities.
(c) Our innate ability to relax.
(d) Our feeling of happiness.

3. What are the lojong teachings for?
(a) Finding a good feeling.
(b) Seeking spiritual guidance.
(c) Training the mind.
(d) Opening the heart.

4. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?
(a) The universe.
(b) Our separateness from others.
(c) The idea of hate.
(d) Our fears.

5. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?
(a) Pretend that we feel positive, until it becomes our true feeling.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Become intimate with them.
(d) We should notice the ways in which we can alter our circumstances to make ourselves happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three characteristics of human existence?

2. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?

3. What are the four limitless qualities?

4. What is Maitri?

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

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