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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chodron suggest warriors see "right" and "wrong"?
(a) As useful categories.
(b) As a way to categorize spiritual and nonspiritual people.
(c) As incorrect ways that untrained people look at the world.
(d) As extreme answers.

2. What is threefold purity?
(a) No big deal about the doer, the action, the result.
(b) Love, kindness, and hope.
(c) Heart, mind, and hands.
(d) Peace, quiet, and goodness.

3. What aspiration does Chodron recommend to cultivate love and joy?
(a) "May I and others never be separated from the great happiness that is devoid of suffering."
(b) "May we all enjoy comfort and joy."
(c) "May I and others find joy in our circumstances as they are."
(d) "May we never be separated from each other, and in our connection find joy and happiness."

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

5. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?
(a) "As long as you make it."
(b) "At least until you die."
(c) "Less time than it does to cultivate unhappiness."
(d) "It will take less time if you start now."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

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

3. What is the main point of the formal practice of maitri?

4. What is Maitri?

5. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?

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