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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author recommend that we do with our sorrow?
(a) Try to change it.
(b) Master it in order to eliminate it.
(c) Fully focus on it in order to verbalize it.
(d) Sit with it.

2. What is equanimity?
(a) Being okay.
(b) Being sad.
(c) Being happy.
(d) Creating a happy space.

3. What relationship does a Buddhist teaching claim that we have had with all others?
(a) That of mother and child.
(b) That of an animal and owner.
(c) That of a teacher and student.
(d) That of a lover.

4. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "essentially good."
(b) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."
(c) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(d) As "loving and generous at its very core."

5. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Lessons from our past experience.
(b) Sitting meditation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chodron write we cannot do without loving-kindness for ourselves?

2. What is the second stage in learning to rejoice?

3. What are the four limitless qualities?

4. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

5. What poet does the author quote as saying, "If I don't get a vision on Desolation Peak, then my name ain't William Blake."

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