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

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) Increased tension.
(b) Heartbreak.
(c) Losing patience.
(d) Self-aggression.

3. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Lessons from our past experience.
(c) Sitting meditation.
(d) Anger.

4. What is the near enemy of loving-kindness?
(a) Lust.
(b) Humor.
(c) Hope.
(d) Attachment.

5. What does Chodron write we cannot do without loving-kindness for ourselves?
(a) We cannot achieve our optimum physical health.
(b) It is difficult, "if not impossible," to love others.
(c) We cannot be happy, and enjoy our own good fortune.
(d) We cannot give up control, or "truly understand" that the world is full of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?

2. What are the three noble principles?

3. What does tonglen literally mean?

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

5. What is equanimity?

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