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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 Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?
(a) Pretend that we feel positive, until it becomes our true feeling.
(b) Become intimate with them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) We should notice the ways in which we can alter our circumstances to make ourselves happy.

2. Which does Chodron consider more emotionally challenging: loving-kindness or compassion?
(a) Compassion, because it involves feeling pain.
(b) Loving-kindness, because it is easy to want to retaliate.
(c) Compassion, because it involves looking at things in a new way.
(d) Loving-kindness, because people can be annoying.

3. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?
(a) "At least until you die."
(b) "Less time than it does to cultivate unhappiness."
(c) "It will take less time if you start now."
(d) "As long as you make it."

4. Which of the two witnesses does Chodron say we should hold?
(a) "The second."
(b) "The first."
(c) "The nearest."
(d) "The principal one."

5. How does equanimity compare with our usual perspective?
(a) It is happier.
(b) It is bigger.
(c) It is less happy.
(d) It is less confusing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "sharing the heart"?

2. How many near enemies of compassion are there?

3. What did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpiche suggest we do to train in compassion?

4. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?

5. Why does Chodron claim that the practice of bodhichitta increases our joy?

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