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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 color is the Dalai Lama's home?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.
2. What disease did Archbishop Tutu suffer from as a child?
(a) Measles.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Polio.
3. 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 musical bears to make people laugh.
(c) He told a story about flowers and bees to make people laugh.
(d) He told a story about small-nosed people and big-nosed people to make the gathering laugh.
4. What does the Dalai Lama say happens to a person who cares only for himself?
(a) He shrivels.
(b) He becomes forgetful.
(c) He becomes powerful.
(d) He thrives.
5. What injury does Abrams say his own father suffered recently?
(a) Broken wrist.
(b) Traumatic brain injury.
(c) Broken leg.
(d) Torn ligament in the shoulder.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of perspective does the Dalai Lama urge his followers to try to take?
2. According to Abrams, what is generosity the natural outgrowth of?
3. What does Jinpa say is the true measure of spiritual development?
4. On what date did the Dalai Lama remember that spontaneous protests began in Tibet in the 2000s?
5. What does the Dalai Lama say forgiveness does not include?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part IV, what does Brother David Steindl-Rast say about the relationship between gratitude and happiness?
2. In Part IV, why did the Dalai Lama laugh so hard when a former Protestant militant in Belfast said the loyalists had always taught him Jesus was Protestant and not Catholic?
3. In Part IV, what does Abrams identify as the so-called first pillar of the heart, and why is it so important?
4. In Part III, what does the Dalai Lama say about his feelings about his own safety and security in Dharamsala?
5. In Part IV, what experience of Archbishop Tutu's has the greatest impact on his teachings and philosophies about forgiveness?
6. In Part IV, why does Archbishop Tutu say the ability to laugh at himself has served him well in life and allowed him to connect with people?
7. In Part III, what specific advice does the Dalai Lama offer about changing one's perspective for the better?
8. In Part III, why does the Dalai Lama jokingly say he prefers to go to hell?
9. What decision regarding Archbishop Tutu's children created some tension and anguish between Tutu and his wife, Leah?
10. In Part IV, what does Abrams explain as a core paradox of happiness?
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