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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 "loving and generous at its very core."
(b) As "essentially good."
(c) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(d) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."

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

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

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 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 wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.

5. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?
(a) Body aches.
(b) Fear.
(c) Loving-kindness.
(d) Freedom from emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three noble principles?

2. What does the author experience after finding her boyfriend "passionately embracing" another woman?

3. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?

4. According to Chodron, what happens when we consciously try to fix faults in ourselves?

5. 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."

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