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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 is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?
(a) Easy meditation.
(b) Classic relaxation and meditation.
(c) Relaxed meditation.
(d) Mindfulness-awareness practice.

2. In practicing compassion, who is the first person we aspire to feel compassion for?
(a) Our enemies.
(b) Our families.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) People we do not know.

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

4. What is the first stage of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) Engendering loving-kindness for ourselves.
(b) Decide that we will do no harm.
(c) Closing our eyes, and taking a deep breath to relax the body.
(d) Standing in the first yoga position.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron claim is our relationship to reaching out to others?

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?

3. What are the lojong teachings for?

4. What is Maitri?

5. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?

(see the answer key)

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