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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the near enemy of loving-kindness?
(a) Lust.
(b) Hope.
(c) Humor.
(d) Attachment.

2. Why can our good fortune be hard to miss?
(a) Because society pressures us to have so much that we focus on our lack.
(b) Because it is easier to focus on negativity.
(c) Because of its "ordinariness."
(d) Because it is not "our habitual human behavior."

3. What is the role of forgiveness in bodhichitta training?
(a) It is what warriors begin with, and can later leave behind.
(b) It is an essential part of it.
(c) It is not important.
(d) The author has concluded in recent years that it is very important.

4. What did the mother who wanted to help her heroin addicted son feel during her aspiration?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Overwhelmed.

5. How do we get beyond laziness to open ourselves to bodhichitta?
(a) Meditation and other warrior practices.
(b) Physical excercise.
(c) Think positively.
(d) Work with a teacher.

6. What would Chodron like us to see about being in a raft that has disintegrated?
(a) It can be liberating.
(b) It could never happen.
(c) We never needed a raft.
(d) Our innermost self finds a way in an emergency.

7. What is the far enemy of loving-kindness?
(a) Longing.
(b) Anger.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Hatred.

8. What is the second stage in learning to rejoice?
(a) To take joy in our relationships.
(b) To rejoice about the simplest things possible.
(c) To take time to truly enjoy aspects our routine that are the most normal.
(d) To rejoice in the good fortune of another.

9. Why does Chodron write that rejoicing in things takes courage?
(a) Because we have to imagine more possibilities for ourselves.
(b) Because we have to create a new story of our lives.
(c) Because we have to drop our complaining.
(d) Because we have to think consistently about one thing for longer than we are used to.

10. Why does Chodron claim that the practice of bodhichitta increases our joy?
(a) Because it increases awareness of our basic goodness.
(b) Because it teaches us to be calm, and sitting silently can improve our mood.
(c) Because as we meditate on our love for others, we become more kind toward them, ad love becomes a chain of thoughts, beliefs, and actions.
(d) Because the Buddha said that this is what would occur.

11. Where did the Buddha teach groundlessness?
(a) The Firefly River.
(b) Vulture Peak Mountain.
(c) A beach.
(d) The Imperial Forest.

12. What is the pirate's name in the traditional Buddhist story about a ship captain and a pirate?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Bearded Bar.
(c) Angry Spearman.
(d) Erik the Enojar.

13. What is equanimity?
(a) Being okay.
(b) Being happy.
(c) Being sad.
(d) Creating a happy space.

14. Which of the following qualities is one of the five strengths?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Strong determination.

15. What is the "seed of goodness"?
(a) Openness and tenderness.
(b) Hope and love.
(c) Packets of seeds.
(d) Fatigue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the near enemy of equanimity?

2. How long does Chodron say that cultivating equanimity takes?

3. What did the cook from Gambo Alley who was miserable see as she walked unhappily?

4. How does equanimity compare with our usual perspective?

5. What does Chondron claim is required to forgive?

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