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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Geshe Ben do after a meal with his patrons?
(a) Was seen using the bathroom.
(b) Got caught swimming in the pool.
(c) Got caught with his hand in a flour bag.
(d) Was found cooking.

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

5. What is another term for the six strengths?
(a) Six palomitas.
(b) Six hearts.
(c) Six senses.
(d) Six paramitas.

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

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

8. How does Chodron argue that our diet and health affect our strength?
(a) She argues that it is impossible to withstand the rigors of sitting meditation if we are physically unhealthy.
(b) She writes that it is important that we care for our health as it does affect our minds.
(c) She does not deal with these topics directly.
(d) She writes that we must use moderation in all things.

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

10. Which of the following does Chodron claim most of us are not satisfied to do?
(a) Create a career in spiritualist practice.
(b) Long for company.
(c) Hope for change.
(d) Retreat from the world.

11. What can the six ways of compassionate living do?
(a) Teach us to live within our means.
(b) Teach us to expect the unexpected.
(c) Take us beyond our fear of letting go.
(d) Fortify our relationships.

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

13. What aspiration does Chodron recommend to cultivate love and joy?
(a) "May we all enjoy comfort and joy."
(b) "May I and others never be separated from the great happiness that is devoid of suffering."
(c) "May we never be separated from each other, and in our connection find joy and happiness."
(d) "May I and others find joy in our circumstances as they are."

14. What did Trungpa Rinpoche say his students should do instead of listening to the radio?
(a) Meditate.
(b) Sit.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Talk to their ego.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most important in doing good deeds?

2. How many near enemies of compassion are there?

3. Which of the following qualities is one of the five strengths?

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

5. What upset the woman who was always late in Chodron's story?

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