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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 is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(b) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(c) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(d) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.

2. What hope does Chodron write that we should abandon?
(a) Hope of growth.
(b) Hope of change.
(c) Hope of earning love.
(d) Hope of fruition.

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

4. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?
(a) The lord of greed.
(b) The lord of speech.
(c) The lord of work.
(d) The lord of competition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Geshe Chekawa interested in publicizing the lojong slogans?

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?

3. What does the author claim "cannot proliferate" without our thoughts?

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

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

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