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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 relationship does Chodron claim we are predisposed to have with others?
(a) Relationships always take hard work, and we certainly are not predisposed to live easily with others.
(b) All beings are predisposed to waking up and reaching out to others.
(c) Though relationships are unnatural, and love does not always flow freely, we can nourish these sentiments.
(d) 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.
2. What relationship does a Buddhist teaching claim that we have had with all others?
(a) That of a lover.
(b) That of mother and child.
(c) That of an animal and owner.
(d) That of a teacher and student.
3. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Love.
(d) Teaching.
4. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(b) "By trying to please others, we can gain relief from the pressures we create for ourselves, but become so used to it that we lose our sense of what we want in life."
(c) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(d) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."
5. What is Maitri?
(a) Full relaxation.
(b) A Tibetan term for hope.
(c) Deep breath.
(d) Acceptance of ourselves.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?
2. What did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpiche suggest we do to train in compassion?
3. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?
4. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?
5. What does tonglen literally mean?
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