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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 Chitta translate?
(a) As mind or thought.
(b) As relaxation.
(c) As mind, heart, or attitude.
(d) As love, heart, and affection.

2. What is Maitri?
(a) Acceptance of ourselves.
(b) Full relaxation.
(c) A Tibetan term for hope.
(d) Deep breath.

3. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?
(a) A truly centered person.
(b) A person who put love first.
(c) A master warrior.
(d) A true teacher.

4. 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) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(c) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(d) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.

5. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?
(a) The universe.
(b) Our fears.
(c) Our separateness from others.
(d) The idea of hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the four qualities of maitri?

2. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

3. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?

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

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

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