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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?
(a) We are never separated from enlightenment.
(b) We can all achieve enlightenment through the same method.
(c) Enlightenment can be achieved by everyone.
(d) Only by releasing the goal of achieving enlightenment is it achieved.

2. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?
(a) Hurtful.
(b) Repression.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Wasted time.

3. The author relates the story of a woman who found herself surrounded by people threatening to throw stones. What did she feel in that moment?
(a) Joy.
(b) Shared humanity.
(c) Stress.
(d) Humiliation.

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

5. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?

2. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?

3. Which does Chodron consider more emotionally challenging: loving-kindness or compassion?

4. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?

5. What does Chodron claim we cultivate through making aspirations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the qualities of maitri that are cultivated when we meditate?

2. What are the stages of the formal practice of tonglen?

3. What are the four limitless qualities?

4. How did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggest arousing compassion?

5. What are the stages of the formal practice of loving-kindness?

6. What does "of the two witnesses, hold the principal one" mean?

7. What are the three lords of materialism?

8. Why does Chodron describe the experience of a young woman who was in a foreign country, surrounded by people throwing stones at her?

9. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?

10. What does Chodron compare to "tapping into a spring of living water that has been temporarily encased in solid rock"?

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