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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Chodron.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Mother Teresa.
2. How many stages are in the formal practice of tonglen?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.
3. What does Chodron claim we cultivate through making aspirations?
(a) Hope.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Worldly ambition.
(d) Good health.
4. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?
(a) Our feeling of happiness.
(b) Our own deepest needs.
(c) The four limitless qualities.
(d) Our innate ability to relax.
5. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?
(a) "Learning through questions."
(b) "Placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving kindness."
(c) "Avoiding hurting others to avoid feeling alone."
(d) "Being our own mother."
6. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.
7. How does Chitta translate?
(a) As mind or thought.
(b) As relaxation.
(c) As love, heart, and affection.
(d) As mind, heart, or attitude.
8. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Love, hope, and generosity.
(b) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(c) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(d) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
9. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(b) "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."
(c) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(d) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."
10. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?
(a) The lord of speech.
(b) The lord of work.
(c) The lord of greed.
(d) The lord of competition.
11. 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.
12. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?
(a) Body aches.
(b) Fear.
(c) Freedom from emotion.
(d) Loving-kindness.
13. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(b) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(c) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(d) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
14. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?
(a) Finding Freedom.
(b) A story about Florida.
(c) A story about failure.
(d) Learning to Love.
15. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Chodron, what happens when we consciously try to fix faults in ourselves?
2. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
3. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?
4. What does Chodron claim is our relationship to reaching out to others?
5. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
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