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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
(b) Sit with it.
(c) Try to change it.
(d) Master it in order to eliminate it.

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

3. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Love.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Teaching.

4. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?
(a) Saints.
(b) Warriors.
(c) True yogis.
(d) Winners.

5. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?
(a) Body aches.
(b) Fear.
(c) Loving-kindness.
(d) Freedom from emotion.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

5. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

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