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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?
(a) Not to let life harden her heart.
(b) To care for others in order to make her own life smoother.
(c) Not to listen to advice.
(d) To have a clear mind by avoiding spicy foods.

2. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?
(a) Our own deepest needs.
(b) The four limitless qualities.
(c) Our feeling of happiness.
(d) Our innate ability to relax.

3. What does the yogi Patrul Rinpche suggest we do to arouse compassion?
(a) Write letters to our enemies.
(b) Relax our body in order to feel physically.
(c) Imagine ourselves in the place of someone in pain.
(d) Meditate on the feelings of others.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?

2. What are the four limitless qualities?

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

4. What is Maitri?

5. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?

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