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

2. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."
(b) "By trying to please others, we can gain relief from the pressures we create for ourselves, but become so used to it that we lose our sense of what we want in life."
(c) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(d) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."

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

4. What is the first lord of materialism?
(a) Form.
(b) Sensuality.
(c) Personal style.
(d) Function.

5. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the three noble principles?

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