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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 did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?
(a) We are never separated from enlightenment.
(b) Enlightenment can be achieved by everyone.
(c) We can all achieve enlightenment through the same method.
(d) Only by releasing the goal of achieving enlightenment is it achieved.

2. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?
(a) Television.
(b) Her family.
(c) Church.
(d) School.

3. How does the author claim that aspirations and affirmations differ?
(a) Chodron argues that affirmations and aspirations can be used interchangeably in meditation.
(b) Chodron claims that aspirations have long been used by Buddhists, but affiirmations have been scientifically studied and documented more.
(c) Chodron claims that they are not different.
(d) Chodron writes that in one we try to convince ourselves of something, and in the other we aim to open our hearts.

4. What poet does the author quote as saying, "If I don't get a vision on Desolation Peak, then my name ain't William Blake."
(a) John Billings.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Jack Kerouac.
(d) Anne Sexton.

5. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?
(a) To let our guard down and better understand others.
(b) To increase the hope in our lives.
(c) To connect to the Superego.
(d) To eventually change our behavior.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?

4. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?

5. What is the first lord of materialism?

(see the answer key)

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