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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second certainly of death?
(a) One meet Buddha
(b) One will die
(c) One is unable to determine when he or she will die
(d) One will find out the truth

2. Name one of the attributes a master should have?
(a) Kindness
(b) Anger
(c) Passion
(d) Humor

3. How does the Dalai Lama claim a person can minimize the consequences of death?
(a) By confronting it
(b) By becoming a Buddhist
(c) By turning to God
(d) By looking for happiness

4. What does Rinpoche state his master treated him like?
(a) An animal
(b) A slave
(c) His son
(d) A person

5. How does the west traditionally cope with death?
(a) They deny it
(b) They forget it
(c) They rush to get there
(d) They embrace it

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

7. What does Sogyal express the importance of in this chapter?
(a) Dzogchen
(b) Samantabhadra
(c) Meditation
(d) Yin and Yang

8. What king of reptile does Sogyal tell a story about?
(a) Toad
(b) Dinosaur
(c) Lizard
(d) Frog

9. What is the ground for the ordinary mind the foundation for?
(a) Goodness
(b) Karma
(c) Death
(d) Enlightenment

10. What was Kamalijit convinced she was killed by?
(a) A tornado
(b) A bus
(c) A hyena
(d) A lion

11. What is the second authenticity?
(a) A love of life
(b) The blessing of an authentic master
(c) The presence of enlightenment
(d) The devotion of a student

12. Where was Arthur Flowerdew from?
(a) USA
(b) Scotland
(c) New Zealand
(d) England

13. What other character is also dying in this opening chapter?
(a) Khyentse
(b) Sogyal
(c) Lama Tseten
(d) Kandro Tsering

14. What does Sogyal say that in Buddhist faith is in the mind only?
(a) Life and death
(b) Sexual activity
(c) Material needs
(d) Anger

15. What does the Dalai Lama state Rinpoche is a student of?
(a) Eastern education
(b) Western education
(c) Psychology
(d) Buddhism

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama hope Sogyal can offer?

2. What did Sogyal experience at the age of seven?

3. What does a student have to achieved to move on to the View?

4. What does Rinpoche believe his master was the embodiment of?

5. What does Sogyal say can lighten an atmosphere when a person is dying?

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