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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 does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?
(a) Understand the nature of love.
(b) Remember wisdom at emotional moments.
(c) Learn to meditate in less time than any other method.
(d) Become a true warrior.

2. What do vajrayana Buddhists claim is inherent in emotion?
(a) Love.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) The seeds of self-growth.
(d) Hope.

3. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?
(a) School.
(b) Television.
(c) Her family.
(d) Church.

4. How does the author claim that aspirations and affirmations differ?
(a) Chodron claims that they are not different.
(b) Chodron claims that aspirations have long been used by Buddhists, but affiirmations have been scientifically studied and documented more.
(c) Chodron writes that in one we try to convince ourselves of something, and in the other we aim to open our hearts.
(d) Chodron argues that affirmations and aspirations can be used interchangeably in meditation.

5. Which does Chodron consider more emotionally challenging: loving-kindness or compassion?
(a) Loving-kindness, because it is easy to want to retaliate.
(b) Compassion, because it involves looking at things in a new way.
(c) Loving-kindness, because people can be annoying.
(d) Compassion, because it involves feeling pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship does a Buddhist teaching claim that we have had with all others?

2. 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."

3. What are the three lords of materialism?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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