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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do we begin to practice the four limitless qualities?
(a) We must believe in our own potential, and we may begin by creating a slogan that states what we want to embody.
(b) We try to love ourselves by making sure we are as comfortable as possible, and then try to help others be comfortable as well.
(c) We study the holy books with our spiritual teachers, and once we understand these qualities, we begin to meditate on them.
(d) We begin by wishing happiness for ourselves and our close circle, gradually widening the circle.

2. What relationship does Chodron claim we are predisposed to have with others?
(a) All beings are predisposed to waking up and reaching out to others.
(b) Though relationships are unnatural, and love does not always flow freely, we can nourish these sentiments.
(c) Relationships always take hard work, and we certainly are not predisposed to live easily with others.
(d) Just as we connect with our caretakers in infancy, we would naturally connect with others if we remained egoless, but this is lost in early childhood.

3. Which of the following does Chodron recommend?
(a) Do not eat food that will make your mind race.
(b) Remember only positive moments from the past.
(c) Relax slowly into meditation, and it will be less strenuous on your body.
(d) Do not expect applause.

4. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Bodhichitta.

5. Where did the Buddha teach groundlessness?
(a) The Imperial Forest.
(b) Vulture Peak Mountain.
(c) The Firefly River.
(d) A beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the synonym for sitting mediation used by Chodron?

2. What does Chodron write that her friend thought when he heard a woman screaming on the street?

3. What does Chodron claim undermines our wakeful energy?

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

5. Which of the following is one of the three kinds of laziness?

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