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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chodron define bravery?
(a) Loving freely.
(b) Being in the present moment.
(c) Avoiding reactions in relationships.
(d) Not having self-deception.

2. What does Chondron claim is required to forgive?
(a) Love.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Hope.
(d) Spiritual teaching.

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

4. What is the first step to an aspiration for joy and happiness?
(a) Staying with our meditative process.
(b) Enjoying our thoughts without any effort to change our circumstance.
(c) Enjoying our own good fortune.
(d) Avoiding protests.

5. What happens to equanimity when we can "dwell in the places that scare us"?
(a) It is something we no longer have to consider.
(b) It decreases.
(c) It becomes unshakable.
(d) It becomes part of our everyday life.

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

7. Chodron writes that, "All activities should be done with one intention." What is that intention?
(a) To live like today is our last day on the planet.
(b) To live in the present.
(c) To realize our connection with all beings.
(d) To act from love.

8. What is the final of the five strengths?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Aspiration.

9. What upset the woman who was always late in Chodron's story?
(a) Her food spoiled.
(b) She wanted a raise, but her boss said she never arrived on time.
(c) Her daughter fell.
(d) When someone else was late.

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

11. 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 it teaches us to be calm, and sitting silently can improve our mood.
(c) Because it increases awareness of our basic goodness.
(d) Because the Buddha said that this is what would occur.

12. Which of the following is a near enemy of compassion?
(a) Pity.
(b) Greed.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Hope.

13. Which of the following is one of the six ways of compassionate living?
(a) Work.
(b) Effort.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Patience.

14. What is the near enemy of joyfulness?
(a) Overestimating.
(b) Over working.
(c) Over planning.
(d) Overexcitement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen if we "stay with" sorrow or pain?

2. What happened to the woman who gave a panhandler a bill outside of a store?

3. What is the near enemy of equanimity?

4. Who are the best teachers in teaching us to rejoice in the good fortune of others?

5. Who is Jarvis Masters?

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