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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a certainty about death?
(a) One will die
(b) One will be reincarnated
(c) One will go to heaven
(d) One will think no longer

3. Name one of Buddha's six realms of existence?
(a) Hungry dogs
(b) Anger
(c) Hungry ghosts
(d) Happiness

4. What did Rinpoche do at he age of six months?
(a) Made a cake
(b) Said Buddha
(c) Entered the monastry
(d) Walked

5. What state is the entire world in when Buddha wakes up from his meditation?
(a) True perfection
(b) Warfare
(c) Destruction
(d) Harmony

6. What does mindfullness defuse?
(a) Worry
(b) Negativity and aggression
(c) Self hatred
(d) Misunderstandings

7. Where is Sogyal traveling to?
(a) Western Tibet
(b) Central Tibet
(c) Eastern Tibet
(d) China

8. 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

9. What sacred lake does Kyentse visit in this chapter?
(a) Illsbruck Tso
(b) Lhasa Tso
(c) Vlkava Tso
(d) Yamdrok Tso

10. What does Soyal see Tsetsen as?
(a) A father figure
(b) A best friend
(c) A brother
(d) A grandfather figure

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

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

13. Which of the following is not one of the four Bardos?
(a) The natural bardo of life
(b) The painful bardo of dying
(c) The luminous bardo of dharmata
(d) The mechanical Bardo of materialism

14. What part of Tibet is Sogyal traveling through at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) The eastern highlands
(b) The capital city
(c) The western highlands
(d) The Tibetan mountains

15. Who does Rinpoche dedicate his book to?
(a) His master
(b) His mother
(c) His best friend
(d) The Dalai Lama

Short Answer Questions

1. How can one overcome negative feelings when watching someone dying?

2. Who is Khandro?

3. What does Sogyal express the importance of in this chapter?

4. Who does the Dalai Lama praise as a master of the Tibetan tradition?

5. What does Sogyal view the western ideas towards death as?

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