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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?
(a) Changing emotions and difficulty focusing.
(b) Anxiety and attention problems.
(c) Neurosis and wisdom.
(d) Difficulty in life and diminished hope for the future.

3. What are the three lords of materialism?
(a) Ways we maintain an "illusion of security."
(b) Sins.
(c) Obstacles to achieving Nirvana.
(d) An attachment to status and material goods.

4. What are the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Our innate talents, meditation, generosity, and kindness.
(b) Steadfastness, clear seeing, experiencing our emotional distress, and attention to the present moment..
(c) Hope, relaxation, aspiration, and generosity.
(d) Frivolity, materialism, self-absorption, and disinterest in others.

5. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?
(a) Her family.
(b) Church.
(c) Television.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

2. What is Maitri?

3. Where does the title of the book come from?

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

5. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?

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