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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?
(a) "Life is always best when you try to look on the bright side."
(b) "There is no cure for hot and cold."
(c) "Everything has meaning."
(d) "Anger is natural, but not helpful."

2. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?
(a) "Losing ourselves more and more, not even as we consider ourselves separate from others, but because we do this."
(b) "Reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment."
(c) "As we look for comfort, we slowly slip into addictive behaviors that can destroy our lives."
(d) "By trying to please others, we can gain relief from the pressures we create for ourselves, but become so used to it that we lose our sense of what we want in life."

3. 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."
(a) Anne Sexton.
(b) John Billings.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

4. How does Chitta translate?
(a) As mind, heart, or attitude.
(b) As mind or thought.
(c) As love, heart, and affection.
(d) As relaxation.

5. Which of the two witnesses does Chodron say we should hold?
(a) "The nearest."
(b) "The principal one."
(c) "The first."
(d) "The second."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?

2. What do vajrayana Buddhists claim is inherent in emotion?

3. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?

4. What is the third lord of materialism?

5. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?

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