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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(b) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
(c) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(d) Love, hope, and generosity.

2. What are the lojong teachings for?
(a) Seeking spiritual guidance.
(b) Training the mind.
(c) Opening the heart.
(d) Finding a good feeling.

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

4. What relationship does Chodron claim we are predisposed to have with others?
(a) Though relationships are unnatural, and love does not always flow freely, we can nourish these sentiments.
(b) Just as we connect with our caretakers in infancy, we would naturally connect with others if we remained egoless, but this is lost in early childhood.
(c) Relationships always take hard work, and we certainly are not predisposed to live easily with others.
(d) All beings are predisposed to waking up and reaching out to others.

5. What does Chodron write about categorizing things into "for" and "against"?
(a) Harder than focusing exclusively on the negative.
(b) Efficient.
(c) Making it more difficult to find joy.
(d) Narrowing the mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?

2. What does Chodron believe that we should do with the emotions related to our experiences?

3. How many stages does the formal practice of maitri have?

4. What did the mother who wanted to help her heroin addicted son feel during her aspiration?

5. What happened to the woman who gave a panhandler a bill outside of a store?

(see the answer key)

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