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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chondron claim is the essence of generosity?
(a) Hope.
(b) Letting go.
(c) Feeling alone, and moving beyond it.
(d) Working.

2. Why are students taught to bow to others and to objects in the Zen tradition?
(a) To show respect.
(b) To demonstrate their devotion to others.
(c) To show humility.
(d) To demonstrate their status.

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

4. What does Chodron claim undermines our wakeful energy?
(a) Fear.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Depression.

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

6. Why does Chodron claim that the practice of bodhichitta increases our joy?
(a) 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.
(b) Because the Buddha said that this is what would occur.
(c) Because it increases awareness of our basic goodness.
(d) Because it teaches us to be calm, and sitting silently can improve our mood.

7. What did the cook from Gambo Alley who was miserable see as she walked unhappily?
(a) A shooting star.
(b) A eclipse.
(c) An unmarried and attractive man.
(d) A fox.

8. Which of the following is one of the three kinds of laziness?
(a) Lack of sleep.
(b) Running late.
(c) Depression.
(d) Comfort orientation.

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

10. What is overwhelm?
(a) "A holier-than-thou attitude."
(b) Resentment.
(c) Boredom.
(d) "A sense of helplessness."

11. What will happen if we "stay with" sorrow or pain?
(a) We will understand why we have so many psychological issues.
(b) We will feel worse.
(c) We will feel lighter and more courageous.
(d) We will have strengthened personal relationships.

12. Chodron writes that we should daily have the same commitment to what happens to us every day.
(a) "Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we should try to always be thankful for what we have."
(b) "We should always treat our lives as an experiment, and continue to try new things no matter how difficult it seems."
(c) "Whatever happens to us on a day to day basis, we should recall that we direct our own lives, and we carry the responsibility for our circumstances."
(d) "Whatever happens, our commitment is to use it to awaken our hearts."

13. What is threefold purity?
(a) No big deal about the doer, the action, the result.
(b) Heart, mind, and hands.
(c) Peace, quiet, and goodness.
(d) Love, kindness, and hope.

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

15. What does Chodron write about "shoulds" and "should nots"?
(a) We should focus on the "shoulds," while avoiding "should nots."
(b) These are used by the weak, who have not trained as warriors.
(c) We should not see things in these categories.
(d) These are helpful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the mother who wanted to help her heroin addicted son feel during her aspiration?

2. How does Chodron define bravery?

3. Who is Jarvis Masters?

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

5. How many strengths does Chodron count in summarizing Chapter 15?

(see the answer keys)

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