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

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

3. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(b) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(c) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(d) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.

4. 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?
(a) Joy.
(b) Shared humanity.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Stress.

5. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?
(a) Loving-kindness.
(b) Body aches.
(c) Freedom from emotion.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?

2. How does Chitta translate?

3. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

4. What is the third lord of materialism?

5. What are the three characteristics of human existence?

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