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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 the final of the five strengths?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Aspiration.
(d) Inspiration.

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

3. What is lhenchak?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Tibetan for "missed opportunity to feel love."
(c) An Indian term for "practicality meeting creativity."
(d) A Tibetan term for how free-flowing love can go "astray."

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

5. Who is Jarvis Masters?
(a) A bank robber that Chodron read about.
(b) A man who was on death row.
(c) Chodron's former boyfriend.
(d) A comedian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron claim is the most difficult step in any practice?

2. What does Chodron write that a woman she knew did in traffic?

3. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?

4. According to Chodron, what happens when we consciously try to fix faults in ourselves?

5. Who did Atisha take with him from India to Tibet?

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