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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Chodron like us to see about being in a raft that has disintegrated?
(a) It could never happen.
(b) It can be liberating.
(c) Our innermost self finds a way in an emergency.
(d) We never needed a raft.

2. What are the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Hope, relaxation, aspiration, and generosity.
(b) Frivolity, materialism, self-absorption, and disinterest in others.
(c) Steadfastness, clear seeing, experiencing our emotional distress, and attention to the present moment..
(d) Our innate talents, meditation, generosity, and kindness.

3. According to Chodron, what two things do all those who set out on this path discover that we all have?
(a) Difficulty in life and diminished hope for the future.
(b) Anxiety and attention problems.
(c) Neurosis and wisdom.
(d) Changing emotions and difficulty focusing.

4. What does the yogi Patrul Rinpche suggest we do to arouse compassion?
(a) Write letters to our enemies.
(b) Relax our body in order to feel physically.
(c) Meditate on the feelings of others.
(d) Imagine ourselves in the place of someone in pain.

5. How do we get beyond laziness to open ourselves to bodhichitta?
(a) Physical excercise.
(b) Meditation and other warrior practices.
(c) Work with a teacher.
(d) Think positively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the woman who gave a panhandler a bill outside of a store?

2. What does the author compare to an elderly couple living in a protected community in Florida?

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

4. What does tonglen literally mean?

5. What does Chodron write we cannot do without loving-kindness for ourselves?

(see the answer key)

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