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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 compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
(a) Bodhichitta.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Yoga.

2. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?
(a) Relaxed meditation.
(b) Mindfulness-awareness practice.
(c) Classic relaxation and meditation.
(d) Easy meditation.

3. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?
(a) "Meditate well from the moment we begin."
(b) "Accept spiritual teachings."
(c) "Understand the nature of love."
(d) "Stop struggling against the nature of reality."

4. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) As effort or work.
(b) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.
(c) As health.
(d) As dream, hope, and illusion.

5. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?
(a) The universe.
(b) The idea of hate.
(c) Our separateness from others.
(d) Our fears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?

2. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?

3. 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?

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

5. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?

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