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

2. How many stages are in the formal practice of tonglen?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

4. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?
(a) To eventually change our behavior.
(b) To increase the hope in our lives.
(c) To connect to the Superego.
(d) To let our guard down and better understand others.

5. What hope does Chodron write that we should abandon?
(a) Hope of change.
(b) Hope of growth.
(c) Hope of earning love.
(d) Hope of fruition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?

3. What is the traditional aspiration used in formal maitri training?

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

5. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

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