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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 advice did the author receive as a six year old?
(a) Not to let life harden her heart.
(b) To have a clear mind by avoiding spicy foods.
(c) To care for others in order to make her own life smoother.
(d) Not to listen to advice.

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

3. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?
(a) Addictions are divided along gender lines.
(b) All addictions address the same emotional needs.
(c) Addictions temporarily relieve suffering.
(d) Some addictions are widely considered healthy.

4. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?
(a) A true teacher.
(b) A truly centered person.
(c) A master warrior.
(d) A person who put love first.

5. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?
(a) The lord of speech.
(b) The lord of competition.
(c) The lord of work.
(d) The lord of greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third lord of materialism?

2. How does Bodhi translate?

3. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?

4. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?

5. What are the three lords of materialism?

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