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

2. What does the author claim that bodhichitta training unlocks?
(a) Our feeling of happiness.
(b) Our innate ability to relax.
(c) Our own deepest needs.
(d) The four limitless qualities.

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

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

5. What does Chodron believe that the teaching of the three marks of existence can motivate us to do?
(a) "Understand the nature of love."
(b) "Meditate well from the moment we begin."
(c) "Accept spiritual teachings."
(d) "Stop struggling against the nature of reality."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What hope does Chodron write that we should abandon?

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

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

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