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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sogyal view the western ideas towards death as?
(a) A spiritual wasteland
(b) Comical
(c) Meaningless
(d) Acoholic ramblings

2. What does Sogyal state people should focus on?
(a) Death
(b) Life
(c) Happiness
(d) Work

3. What is each step in life known as?
(a) Garbo
(b) Bardo
(c) Jambo
(d) Loophole

4. What is the English word for bardos?
(a) Karma
(b) Processes
(c) Death
(d) Stages

5. Name one of the five ways to attain enlightenment?
(a) Tasting sacred nectars
(b) Self awareness
(c) Mindfullness
(d) Falling in love

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

7. What does the Dalai Lama see death as?
(a) The beginning of a person's life
(b) A natural, acceptable process
(c) Contentment
(d) Unnecessary

8. What is the basic plot of the book?
(a) Tibetan beliefs on death and dying
(b) War
(c) The themes of Karma
(d) Tibetan politics

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

10. What should a person have at the point of death?
(a) A karmic state of mind
(b) Open eyes
(c) Their family
(d) Contentment

11. How does the frog die?
(a) His head explodes
(b) He overdoses
(c) He is shot
(d) He dies of old age

12. What did Buddha say that humankind repeats?
(a) The cycle of sem
(b) The cycle of samsara
(c) The cycle of verdu
(d) The cycle of life

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

14. What is good in the middle?
(a) Finding Buddhism in middle age.
(b) The period before a person becomes a slave to materialism
(c) The state of mind during meditation
(d) A good marraige

15. What are individuals with a similar vision of the world said to share?
(a) Laughter and happiness
(b) Karmic vision
(c) Bardos
(d) Kudos

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dudjom's wife praise?

2. What country was Dunjom driving through?

3. What does a person need to do before true communication with a dying loved one can begin?

4. What does mindfullness defuse?

5. What is the only way to find enlightenment?

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