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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 is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Love.

2. Which answer completes the following quote? "If this process of clear seeing isn't based on self-compassion it will become a process of ______."
(a) Self-aggression.
(b) Heartbreak.
(c) Increased tension.
(d) Losing patience.

3. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?
(a) Wasted time.
(b) Hurtful.
(c) Repression.
(d) Selfish.

4. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?
(a) Television.
(b) Church.
(c) Her family.
(d) School.

5. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?
(a) Do not eat food that will make your mind race.
(b) Relax slowly into meditation, and it will be less strenuous on your body.
(c) Do not expect applause.
(d) Remember only positive moments from the past.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chodron writes that we should daily have the same commitment to what happens to us every day.

3. What does Chodron write that her friend thought when he heard a woman screaming on the street?

4. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

5. What did the cook from Gambo Alley who was miserable see as she walked unhappily?

(see the answer key)

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