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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?
(a) "Placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving kindness."
(b) "Avoiding hurting others to avoid feeling alone."
(c) "Being our own mother."
(d) "Learning through questions."

2. What relationship does a Buddhist teaching claim that we have had with all others?
(a) That of a lover.
(b) That of an animal and owner.
(c) That of a teacher and student.
(d) That of mother and child.

3. What would Chodron like us to see about being in a raft that has disintegrated?
(a) Our innermost self finds a way in an emergency.
(b) It can be liberating.
(c) We never needed a raft.
(d) It could never happen.

4. What does Chondron claim is required to forgive?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Spiritual teaching.
(d) Bravery.

5. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(b) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."
(c) "By trying to please others, we can gain relief from the pressures we create for ourselves, but become so used to it that we lose our sense of what we want in life."
(d) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?

2. What upset the woman who was always late in Chodron's story?

3. What does Roshi claim that the "secret" of Zen is?

4. Where did the Buddha teach groundlessness?

5. Which of the following is one of the six ways of compassionate living?

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