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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 is Maitri?
(a) Acceptance of ourselves.
(b) A Tibetan term for hope.
(c) Deep breath.
(d) Full relaxation.
2. Which of the two witnesses does Chodron say we should hold?
(a) "The second."
(b) "The first."
(c) "The nearest."
(d) "The principal one."
3. What are the four limitless qualities?
(a) Material things, ideas, barriers of the self, and barriers of others.
(b) Change, Suffering, discomfort, and lack.
(c) Hope, generosity, love, and relaxation.
(d) Loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
4. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(b) Try to change it.
(c) Sit with it.
(d) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
5. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?
(a) "Meditate well from the moment we begin."
(b) "Accept spiritual teachings."
(c) "Understand the nature of love."
(d) "Stop struggling against the nature of reality."
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Bodhi translate?
2. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?
3. Why does Chodron work with aspirations?
4. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
5. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the stages of the formal practice of loving-kindness?
2. What does the Buddhist teaching tell us that all other beings have been over the course of many lifetimes?
3. What does the slogan "train in three difficulties" mean?
4. Why does Chodron describe the experience of a young woman who was in a foreign country, surrounded by people throwing stones at her?
5. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?
6. What are the lojong teachings?
7. How did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggest arousing compassion?
8. What does "of the two witnesses, hold the principal one" mean?
9. What does Chodron write is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
10. What do Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa have in common, according to Chodron?
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