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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 helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Sitting meditation.
(c) Lessons from our past experience.
(d) Anger.

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

3. What does Chodron claim we cultivate through making aspirations?
(a) Good health.
(b) Hope.
(c) Worldly ambition.
(d) Bravery.

4. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?
(a) Knowing that nothing can be counted on saves us from disappointment.
(b) Understanding that certainty is not necessary to find happiness.
(c) Knowing that even Nirvana is uncertain makes it all the more exciting for believers.
(d) Not believing that others can avioid uncertainty.

5. What relationship does Chodron claim we are predisposed to have with others?
(a) All beings are predisposed to waking up and reaching out to others.
(b) Though relationships are unnatural, and love does not always flow freely, we can nourish these sentiments.
(c) 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.
(d) Relationships always take hard work, and we certainly are not predisposed to live easily with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?

2. Who are the two witnesses that Chodron writes about?

3. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?

4. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?

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

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