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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 are the three noble principles?
(a) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
(b) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(c) Love, hope, and generosity.
(d) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.

2. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?
(a) Changing emotions and difficulty focusing.
(b) Neurosis and wisdom.
(c) Anxiety and attention problems.
(d) Difficulty in life and diminished hope for the future.

3. What is maitri called in the Shamhala teaching?
(a) "Placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving kindness."
(b) "Avoiding hurting others to avoid feeling alone."
(c) "Being our own mother."
(d) "Learning through questions."

4. How many stages are in the formal practice of tonglen?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

5. What does Chodron argue happens when we harm others?
(a) We receive bad karma.
(b) We see ourselves in a negative light.
(c) We also harm ourselves.
(d) We only feel momentary relief from our own struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?

2. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?

3. Where does Chodron write that she got her idea of what was real as she grew up in the 1950s?

4. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?

5. How does the author characterize meditation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chodron mention a walled, protected community in Florida?

2. What do Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa have in common, according to Chodron?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are the lojong teachings?

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

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

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