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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 does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?
(a) "Anger is natural, but not helpful."
(b) "There is no cure for hot and cold."
(c) "Everything has meaning."
(d) "Life is always best when you try to look on the bright side."

2. Which answer completes the following quote? "If this process of clear seeing isn't based on self-compassion it will become a process of ______."
(a) Self-aggression.
(b) Losing patience.
(c) Increased tension.
(d) Heartbreak.

3. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?
(a) Addictions are divided along gender lines.
(b) All addictions address the same emotional needs.
(c) Addictions temporarily relieve suffering.
(d) Some addictions are widely considered healthy.

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

5. Which of the two witnesses does Chodron say we should hold?
(a) "The nearest."
(b) "The principal one."
(c) "The second."
(d) "The first."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author claim that aspirations and affirmations differ?

2. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?

3. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?

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

5. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?

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