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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "essentially good."
(b) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."
(c) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(d) As "loving and generous at its very core."

2. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(b) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(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.

3. What do vajrayana Buddhists claim is inherent in emotion?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) The seeds of self-growth.
(d) Wisdom.

4. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Try to change it.
(b) Sit with it.
(c) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(d) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.

5. What is the third lord of materialism?
(a) The lord of applause.
(b) The lord of ambition.
(c) The lord of mind.
(d) The lord of convenience.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?

2. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?

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

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

5. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?

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