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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen if we "stay with" sorrow or pain?
(a) We will have strengthened personal relationships.
(b) We will feel lighter and more courageous.
(c) We will understand why we have so many psychological issues.
(d) We will feel worse.

2. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(b) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(c) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(d) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.

3. What is the name of the ship captain in traditional Buddhist stories?
(a) Compassionate Heart.
(b) Rudolf.
(c) Prat.
(d) Scholarly Sam.

4. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
(a) From Tibet to Japan.
(b) From India to Tibet.
(c) From India to Latin America.
(d) From China to India.

5. What does Chodron claim is our relationship to reaching out to others?
(a) She argues that there is no point in trying to do this.
(b) She writes that we can do it only with great effort.
(c) She writes that this is our natural inclination.
(d) She claims that this is always hard work, and never natural for us.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first stage of the formal practice of maitri?

2. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?

3. What is the near enemy of equanimity?

4. How does Chodron argue that our diet and health affect our strength?

5. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?

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