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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author claim that sitting meditation cultivates?
(a) Freedom from emotion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Loving-kindness.
(d) Body aches.

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

3. What are the three lords of materialism?
(a) An attachment to status and material goods.
(b) Obstacles to achieving Nirvana.
(c) Ways we maintain an "illusion of security."
(d) Sins.

4. How does Bodhi translate?
(a) As dream, hope, and illusion.
(b) As health.
(c) Awake, enlightened, or completely open.
(d) As effort or work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?

2. What did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?

3. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?

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

5. What are the three noble principles?

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