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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Archbishop Tutu's great regret regarding his father?
(a) He never told his father he loved him.
(b) He never told his father he knew that his father had loved him.
(c) He turned down his father's request to talk very shortly before his father died.
(d) He never told his father he would never forgive him.

2. What disease did Archbishop Tutu suffer from as a child?
(a) Measles.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Polio.

3. What does the Dalai Lama consume in Part III that he almost never ingests?
(a) Meat.
(b) Wine.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Soup.

4. What disease did Archbishop Tutu have to go to a special hospital to be treated for when he was a child?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Yellow Fever.
(c) Ebola.
(d) Malaria.

5. Who does Abrams cite as a powerful example of the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?
(a) Michael Riley.
(b) Marlon Brando.
(c) Anthony Ray Hinton.
(d) James Joyce.

6. Why did Mpho Tutu get stripped of her ministry in South Africa?
(a) She said a prayer the church did not approve of.
(b) She moved to another country.
(c) She wanted to change the rules of the church too radically.
(d) She married a partner of the same sex.

7. What phrase of the Dalai Lama's regarding handling difficulties in life is Abrams particularly struck by in Part III?
(a) Handling the stone.
(b) Finding your inner strength.
(c) Passing through difficulties.
(d) Rising to the occasion.

8. Which doctor of the Dalai Lama's does Archbishop Tutu see in Dharamsala?
(a) Morris Forworn.
(b) Yeshi Dhonden.
(c) Virgil Maglio.
(d) Benito Murlo.

9. How old was the Dalai Lama when he escaped from Tibet to India?
(a) 24.
(b) 16.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

10. What is the root of the word "humility"?
(a) The Latin word for earth or soil, humus.
(b) The Greek word for fondness, humira.
(c) The Latin word for compassion, humo.
(d) The Greek word for ground, humulus.

11. Abrams begins Part IV of the book by saying which of the following was one of the most stunning aspects of the week he spent with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu?
(a) How much praying was done.
(b) How quickly the week went by.
(c) How many people showed up for the interviews.
(d) How much of the week was spent laughing.

12. Who does Archbishop Tutu say are usually the hardest for people to forgive?
(a) Those who are older than them.
(b) Those who are their competitors.
(c) Those who are their teachers.
(d) Those closest to them.

13. What story did Archbishop Tutu use in Rwanda to help make people there laugh in the midst of great pain?
(a) He told a story about fishing and worms to make people laugh.
(b) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about musical bears to make people laugh.
(d) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.

14. What does the Archbishop say is the natural response when someone hits you?
(a) To want to hit that person back.
(b) To plot revenge on that person that is worse than what that person did to you.
(c) To tell someone else about being hit.
(d) To forgive that person.

15. Why does the Dalai Lama say he would prefer hell to heaven?
(a) He probably has some good friends there.
(b) He could solve more problems in hell.
(c) The devil will be an interesting creature to meet.
(d) He has always liked the heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama say happens to people who have no difficulties and are always relaxed?

2. What does Archbishop Tutu think about developing one's sense of humor?

3. Who is the Dalai Lama's friend from Northern Ireland who he thinks embodies the spirit of forgiveness?

4. What position did Nelson Mandela hold when he was imprisoned on Robben Island?

5. What news program profiled the person Abrams thinks embodies the principles of gratitude and forgiveness?

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