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

2. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(b) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(c) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(d) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.

3. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Yoga.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Bodhichitta.

4. 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.

5. What are the three lords of materialism?
(a) An attachment to status and material goods.
(b) Obstacles to achieving Nirvana.
(c) Sins.
(d) Ways we maintain an "illusion of security."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?

2. How does the author characterize meditation?

3. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?

4. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?

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

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