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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In practicing compassion, who is the first person we aspire to feel compassion for?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Our families.
(c) People we do not know.
(d) Our enemies.

2. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.
(b) As effort or work.
(c) As dream, hope, and illusion.
(d) As health.

3. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
(a) From India to Latin America.
(b) From China to India.
(c) From Tibet to Japan.
(d) From India to Tibet.

4. What relationship does Chodron claim we are predisposed to have with others?
(a) Just as we connect with our caretakers in infancy, we would naturally connect with others if we remained egoless, but this is lost in early childhood.
(b) Relationships always take hard work, and we certainly are not predisposed to live easily with others.
(c) Though relationships are unnatural, and love does not always flow freely, we can nourish these sentiments.
(d) All beings are predisposed to waking up and reaching out to others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which does Chodron consider more emotionally challenging: loving-kindness or compassion?

2. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

3. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?

4. Why does Chodron work with aspirations?

5. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

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