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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mind no longer limited by in the bardo of becoming?
(a) The outside world
(b) Conditioning
(c) Technology
(d) The physical body

2. What happens once inner and outer dissolution occur?
(a) Ground Luminosity of the Clear Light
(b) Complete karma
(c) Death
(d) Reincarnation

3. What is it customary not to do a dead body in Tibet for three days?
(a) Look at it
(b) Move it
(c) Touch it
(d) Bury it

4. What does Rick take responsibility for?
(a) His illness
(b) His negative life
(c) Ten murders
(d) His children

5. What have some people dismissed near death experiences as?
(a) Hallucinations
(b) Dreams
(c) Lies
(d) Chemical reactions

6. What kind of euthanasia does Sogyal think is acceptable?
(a) Active
(b) Positive
(c) Quick
(d) Passive

7. Which of the following is a source of extremely high negative karma?
(a) Marriage for money
(b) Suicide
(c) Drugs
(d) Euthanasia

8. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?
(a) Kindergarten
(b) The teenage years
(c) Grade school
(d) University age

9. What is the outer dissolution?
(a) Negative thoughts during mediation
(b) When the earth dissolves
(c) Where the senses and elements dissolve.
(d) What is happening in the next world

10. What does Sogyal define at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Unconditional love
(b) Sympathy
(c) Samsara
(d) Compassion

11. Who asks Sogyal questions in appendix 2?
(a) Parents
(b) Students
(c) Kindergarten teachers
(d) Children

12. Who does Sogyal dedicate the book to?
(a) Buddha
(b) Those who perished in Tibet
(c) Israel
(d) People looking for better lives

13. What is Tonglen?
(a) The act of giving unconditional love
(b) The giving and receiving of suffering
(c) A tantra
(d) Self hatred

14. What does the opening of one's heart allow for?
(a) Compassion
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Unconditional love
(d) Calmness

15. Which of the following is a primary aspect?
(a) Positve thoughts
(b) Compassion
(c) Actions done in life
(d) Birth

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose death does Sogyal describe in this chapter?

2. What do people say the blinding light is filled with?

3. Who does Sogyal say died in 1991?

4. Name one thing that a person who has experienced death has felt?

5. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?

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