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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 helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sitting meditation.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Lessons from our past experience.
2. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?
(a) Addictions are divided along gender lines.
(b) Some addictions are widely considered healthy.
(c) Addictions temporarily relieve suffering.
(d) All addictions address the same emotional needs.
3. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?
(a) Church.
(b) Television.
(c) Her family.
(d) School.
4. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(b) Try to change it.
(c) Sit with it.
(d) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
5. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?
(a) We try to love ourselves by making sure we are as comfortable as possible, and then try to help others be comfortable as well.
(b) We study the holy books with our spiritual teachers, and once we understand these qualities, we begin to meditate on them.
(c) We begin by wishing happiness for ourselves and our close circle, gradually widening the circle.
(d) We must believe in our own potential, and we may begin by creating a slogan that states what we want to embody.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author relates the story of a woman who found herself surrounded by people threatening to throw stones. What did she feel in that moment?
2. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?
3. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?
4. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?
5. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
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