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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main point of the formal practice of maitri?
(a) To withdraw from the noise of our daily lives.
(b) To uncover the ability to love without bias.
(c) To give up our independence to join a community.
(d) To love freely and ask nothing in return.

2. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?
(a) The lord of work.
(b) The lord of speech.
(c) The lord of competition.
(d) The lord of greed.

3. What are the four limitless qualities?
(a) Change, Suffering, discomfort, and lack.
(b) Loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
(c) Material things, ideas, barriers of the self, and barriers of others.
(d) Hope, generosity, love, and relaxation.

4. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?
(a) A story about Florida.
(b) A story about failure.
(c) Learning to Love.
(d) Finding Freedom.

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

6. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Bodhichitta.

7. What are the three characteristics of human existence?
(a) Change, adaptation, and unsatisfied expectations.
(b) Love, hope, and peace.
(c) Impermanence, egolessness, and suffering.
(d) Mediocrity, disinterest, and distraction.

8. What is the traditional aspiration used in formal maitri training?
(a) "My life and my joy is my responsibility."
(b) "May I and others enjoy happiness and the root of happiness."
(c) "There are no problems that I must solve."
(d) "May I create joy in my own life, and rejoice in the happiness that I see in the lives of others."

9. What does Chodron argue happens when we harm others?
(a) We receive bad karma.
(b) We see ourselves in a negative light.
(c) We also harm ourselves.
(d) We only feel momentary relief from our own struggle.

10. What hope does Chodron write that we should abandon?
(a) Hope of earning love.
(b) Hope of growth.
(c) Hope of change.
(d) Hope of fruition.

11. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
(b) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(c) Try to change it.
(d) Sit with it.

12. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Sitting meditation.
(c) Lessons from our past experience.
(d) Anger.

13. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) As dream, hope, and illusion.
(b) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.
(c) As health.
(d) As effort or work.

14. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?
(a) "Being our own mother."
(b) "Avoiding hurting others to avoid feeling alone."
(c) "Learning through questions."
(d) "Placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving kindness."

15. What does Chodron claim is the most difficult step in any practice?
(a) "Having the guts to experiment."
(b) "Allowing ourselves to begin something new."
(c) "Aknowledging that we are all churned up."
(d) "Listening to a teacher, and admitting that we do not know our own way."

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?

2. What are the three lords of materialism?

3. What does the author claim that lojong slogans or the slogans of Atisha can help us do?

4. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?

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

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