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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which answer completes the following quote? "If this process of clear seeing isn't based on self-compassion it will become a process of ______."
(a) Self-aggression.
(b) Heartbreak.
(c) Increased tension.
(d) Losing patience.

2. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Love, hope, and generosity.
(b) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(c) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
(d) Meditate, exercise, and rest.

3. What does Chodron claim is our relationship to reaching out to others?
(a) She writes that this is our natural inclination.
(b) She argues that there is no point in trying to do this.
(c) She claims that this is always hard work, and never natural for us.
(d) She writes that we can do it only with great effort.

4. What is the final step of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) Teaching others what we have learned.
(b) Listening to our heart in total silence.
(c) Understanding that our own perspective is limited.
(d) Expanding our loving kindness to all others.

5. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?
(a) We should notice the ways in which we can alter our circumstances to make ourselves happy.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Become intimate with them.
(d) Pretend that we feel positive, until it becomes our true feeling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?

3. How many stages are in the formal practice of tonglen?

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

5. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?

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