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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?
(a) The humiliation of past mistakes.
(b) Misunderstandings.
(c) Poor relationships.
(d) Emotions.

2. Which of the following is a near enemy of compassion?
(a) Greed.
(b) Hope.
(c) Pity.
(d) Dreaming.

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

4. What is the near enemy of equanimity?
(a) Worry.
(b) Fear.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Detachment.

5. Chodron writes that, "All activities should be done with one intention." What is that intention?
(a) To live like today is our last day on the planet.
(b) To act from love.
(c) To live in the present.
(d) To realize our connection with all beings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main point of the formal practice of maitri?

2. Why are students taught to bow to others and to objects in the Zen tradition?

3. Why does Chodron write that rejoicing in things takes courage?

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

5. The author relates the story of a woman who found herself surrounded by people threatening to throw stones. What did she feel in that moment?

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