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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 Chodron's tone in Chapter 15?
(a) Straightforward.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Hurried.
(d) Hatful.

2. What did the mother who wanted to help her heroin addicted son feel during her aspiration?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Overwhelmed.

3. What does Chodron write that her friend thought when he heard a woman screaming on the street?
(a) "I don't care."
(b) "What is happening?"
(c) "What can I do?"
(d) "Better her than me."

4. What did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpiche suggest we do to train in compassion?
(a) Understand that your problems are not the only ones in the world, and try to help those who are less fortunate.
(b) Actively listen to others, and imagine how they must feel.
(c) Imagine beings in torment, and put yourself in their place.
(d) Try not to hurt others, but do not go out of your way to give when there is no hope of them being kind.

5. What does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?
(a) Remember wisdom at emotional moments.
(b) Become a true warrior.
(c) Understand the nature of love.
(d) Learn to meditate in less time than any other method.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?

2. What is Maitri?

3. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?

4. What is the first lord of materialism?

5. What is the "seed of goodness"?

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