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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 "sharing the heart"?
(a) A simple practice.
(b) An old Zen idea about how to improve our quality of life.
(c) A Buddhist rule for all serious warriors.
(d) A prayer.

2. What is the first stage of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) Standing in the first yoga position.
(b) Engendering loving-kindness for ourselves.
(c) Decide that we will do no harm.
(d) Closing our eyes, and taking a deep breath to relax the body.

3. Where did the Buddha teach groundlessness?
(a) Vulture Peak Mountain.
(b) A beach.
(c) The Firefly River.
(d) The Imperial Forest.

4. Which of the following does Chodron write it is helpful to think about a person who is angry?
(a) Simply a story.
(b) Another person's problem.
(c) A dream.
(d) A reaction to the other person's circumstances.

5. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?
(a) Learning how much money he could make from students.
(b) Hearing that it cured a man from an incurable illness.
(c) The urging of his own spiritual teacher.
(d) Seeing their effect on his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third lord of materialism?

2. What is the near enemy of joyfulness?

3. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?

4. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?

5. Which of the following is one of the three kinds of laziness?

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