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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. How does Chodron suggest we cultivate bravery?
(a) By trying new things.
(b) Through conversations with spiritual teachers.
(c) Through aspirations.
(d) Through affirmations.

2. What are the three lords of materialism?
(a) Sins.
(b) An attachment to status and material goods.
(c) Ways we maintain an "illusion of security."
(d) Obstacles to achieving Nirvana.

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) Stress.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Shared humanity.
(d) Joy.

4. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?
(a) Saints.
(b) Winners.
(c) Warriors.
(d) True yogis.

5. 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) Selfish.
(c) Repression.
(d) Wasted time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?

2. What is the main point of the formal practice of maitri?

3. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

4. What is the fifth step in the formal practice of maitri?

5. Who do we first practice Maitri on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Buddhist teaching tell us that all other beings have been over the course of many lifetimes?

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

3. What is tonglen?

4. Under what conditions does the author claim that people can "train" to be a warrior?

5. What are the four limitless qualities?

6. Chodron asserts that there are two options in life. The first is "to grow up and relate to life directly." What is the second?

7. What does Chodron write is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?

8. What does the slogan "train in three difficulties" mean?

9. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?

10. What image of maitri does Chodron use to explain the concept?

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