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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chodron's tone in Chapter 15?
(a) Straightforward.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Hatful.
(d) Hurried.

2. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "By trying to please others, we can gain relief from the pressures we create for ourselves, but become so used to it that we lose our sense of what we want in life."
(b) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(c) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(d) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."

3. Which does Chodron consider more emotionally challenging: loving-kindness or compassion?
(a) Compassion, because it involves feeling pain.
(b) Loving-kindness, because it is easy to want to retaliate.
(c) Loving-kindness, because people can be annoying.
(d) Compassion, because it involves looking at things in a new way.

4. What did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpiche suggest we do to train in compassion?
(a) Understand that your problems are not the only ones in the world, and try to help those who are less fortunate.
(b) Try not to hurt others, but do not go out of your way to give when there is no hope of them being kind.
(c) Imagine beings in torment, and put yourself in their place.
(d) Actively listen to others, and imagine how they must feel.

5. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Lessons from our past experience.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sitting meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the cook from Gambo Alley who was miserable see as she walked unhappily?

2. What sense is associated with "loss of heart"?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the final step of the formal practice of maitri?

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