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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do we first practice Maitri on?
(a) Our loved ones.
(b) Animals.
(c) Our enemies.
(d) Ourselves.

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

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

4. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Sit with it.
(b) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
(c) Try to change it.
(d) Master it in order to eliminate it.

5. What does the author experience after finding her boyfriend "passionately embracing" another woman?
(a) Absolute disgust with another human being.
(b) An inability to release her own emotional energy.
(c) A deep sadness stemming from her unmet need to be loved.
(d) The horror of causing a tragedy after the rush of anger was released.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the four limitless qualities?

2. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?

3. What does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?

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

5. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?

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