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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 are the three characteristics of human existence?
(a) Impermanence, egolessness, and suffering.
(b) Change, adaptation, and unsatisfied expectations.
(c) Love, hope, and peace.
(d) Mediocrity, disinterest, and distraction.

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

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

4. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(b) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(c) Love, hope, and generosity.
(d) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.

5. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "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."
(b) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(c) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(d) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bodhi translate?

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

4. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

5. What is the first lord of materialism?

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