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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 did Albert Einstein claim was an illusion?
(a) The idea of hate.
(b) Our separateness from others.
(c) Our fears.
(d) The universe.

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

3. The author relates the story of a woman who found herself surrounded by people threatening to throw stones. What did she feel in that moment?
(a) Shared humanity.
(b) Stress.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Joy.

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

5. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?
(a) Addictions temporarily relieve suffering.
(b) Some addictions are widely considered healthy.
(c) All addictions address the same emotional needs.
(d) Addictions are divided along gender lines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?

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

4. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?

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

(see the answer key)

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