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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(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 desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.

4. What is Maitri?
(a) Deep breath.
(b) Full relaxation.
(c) A Tibetan term for hope.
(d) Acceptance of ourselves.

5. 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 a teacher and student.
(d) That of an animal and owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the three lords of materialism?

2. How many steps does the aspiration practice for compassion have?

3. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?

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

5. What are the three noble principles?

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