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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 does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?
(a) We should notice the ways in which we can alter our circumstances to make ourselves happy.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Pretend that we feel positive, until it becomes our true feeling.
(d) Become intimate with them.

2. What does Chodron write that a woman she knew did in traffic?
(a) "Sitting commute meditation."
(b) A daily negativity "detox."
(c) A consistent 45 minute formal aspiration practice.
(d) "Traffic of tonglen."

3. Which of the following does Chodron claim most of us are not satisfied to do?
(a) Retreat from the world.
(b) Long for company.
(c) Hope for change.
(d) Create a career in spiritualist practice.

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

5. What does Chodron claim we do when we act on anger?
(a) Give up.
(b) Strengthen it.
(c) Lose face.
(d) Forget our values.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of harmful conduct does the warrior avoid?

2. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?

3. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?

4. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?

5. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

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