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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 strong determination?
(a) Our determination to be good people, and act responsibly in the world.
(b) Our desire to feel joy.
(c) A desire to enjoy "full personal responsibility for our own happiness."
(d) A determination to respect "whatever life brings."

2. What are the three characteristics of human existence?
(a) Mediocrity, disinterest, and distraction.
(b) Change, adaptation, and unsatisfied expectations.
(c) Love, hope, and peace.
(d) Impermanence, egolessness, and suffering.

3. Chodron writes that, "All activities should be done with one intention." What is that intention?
(a) To live like today is our last day on the planet.
(b) To realize our connection with all beings.
(c) To live in the present.
(d) To act from love.

4. Which of the following is one of the six ways of compassionate living?
(a) Effort.
(b) Patience.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Work.

5. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?
(a) "Everything has meaning."
(b) "There is no cure for hot and cold."
(c) "Life is always best when you try to look on the bright side."
(d) "Anger is natural, but not helpful."

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?

2. What can the six ways of compassionate living do?

3. How does the author claim that aspirations and affirmations differ?

4. What is prajnaparamita?

5. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?

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