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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: "The Innermost Essence".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the gods never find?
(a) True life
(b) True nature
(c) True understanding
(d) True happiness

2. What memory does Sogyal recount about his master?
(a) The time he told Sogyal about his impending death
(b) The time he suddenly kissed and hugged him
(c) The time he whipped him
(d) A holiday in Paris

3. Who is Khandro?
(a) An evil spirit
(b) Buddha's wife
(c) A demi god
(d) A great female master

4. What is a person able to do if he accepts death?
(a) Communicate better
(b) Be at peace with himself
(c) Fall in love
(d) Heal himself

5. What period does the natural bardo span between?
(a) Childhood and teenage years
(b) Birth and death
(c) Morning and night
(d) Childhood and adulthood

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sogyal say that in Buddhist faith is in the mind only?

2. What does the Dalai Lama see death as?

3. What sacred lake does Kyentse visit in this chapter?

4. What does the pursuit of material items lead to?

5. What had Krish Gotami lost in Sogyal's story?

(see the answer key)

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