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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) As health.
(b) As dream, hope, and illusion.
(c) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.
(d) As effort or work.

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

5. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?
(a) We try to love ourselves by making sure we are as comfortable as possible, and then try to help others be comfortable as well.
(b) We study the holy books with our spiritual teachers, and once we understand these qualities, we begin to meditate on them.
(c) We must believe in our own potential, and we may begin by creating a slogan that states what we want to embody.
(d) We begin by wishing happiness for ourselves and our close circle, gradually widening the circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author argue that we do to sow the seeds of our own suffering?

2. What are the four qualities of maitri?

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

4. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?

5. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?

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