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

2. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(b) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(c) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(d) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.

3. How does Chitta translate?
(a) As mind or thought.
(b) As love, heart, and affection.
(c) As relaxation.
(d) As mind, heart, or attitude.

4. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(b) Love, hope, and generosity.
(c) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
(d) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.

5. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?
(a) We are never separated from enlightenment.
(b) Only by releasing the goal of achieving enlightenment is it achieved.
(c) We can all achieve enlightenment through the same method.
(d) Enlightenment can be achieved by everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three lords of materialism?

2. What is the third lord of materialism?

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

4. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

5. What are the three characteristics of human existence?

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