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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?
(a) From China to India.
(b) From India to Latin America.
(c) From India to Tibet.
(d) From Tibet to Japan.

2. What does the author claim is the gift of understanding that uncertainty is part of life?
(a) Not believing that others can avioid uncertainty.
(b) Knowing that even Nirvana is uncertain makes it all the more exciting for believers.
(c) Understanding that certainty is not necessary to find happiness.
(d) Knowing that nothing can be counted on saves us from disappointment.

3. What are the three characteristics of human existence?
(a) Mediocrity, disinterest, and distraction.
(b) Impermanence, egolessness, and suffering.
(c) Love, hope, and peace.
(d) Change, adaptation, and unsatisfied expectations.

4. What advice did the author receive as a six year old?
(a) Not to listen to advice.
(b) To care for others in order to make her own life smoother.
(c) Not to let life harden her heart.
(d) To have a clear mind by avoiding spicy foods.

5. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Misunderstandings.
(c) Poor relationships.
(d) The humiliation of past mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?

2. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?

3. Where does the title of the book come from?

4. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?

5. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?

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