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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) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(b) Sit with it.
(c) Try to change it.
(d) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.

2. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Chodron.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Buddha.

3. What is the third lord of materialism?
(a) The lord of convenience.
(b) The lord of mind.
(c) The lord of ambition.
(d) The lord of applause.

4. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Love.
(c) The workings of the ego.
(d) The relationship between a student and teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

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

4. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?

5. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?

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