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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) Yoga.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Bodhichitta.

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

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

4. What are the three lords of materialism?
(a) Sins.
(b) Ways we maintain an "illusion of security."
(c) Obstacles to achieving Nirvana.
(d) An attachment to status and material goods.

5. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?
(a) Finding Freedom.
(b) A story about Florida.
(c) A story about failure.
(d) Learning to Love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?

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

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

5. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?

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