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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should one direct toward the deceased to help him or her?
(a) Negative thoughts
(b) A statue of Buddha
(c) Sunlight
(d) Positive thoughts

2. What mantra signifies the essence of the View, the Meditation and the Action
(a) Vaira Guru Padma
(b) Om Ah Hum
(c) Siddhi Hum
(d) Lum Jop Bop

3. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Negative people
(b) Grieving loved ones
(c) Acquaintances
(d) Doctors

4. What does the deceased remain linked to during the first 21 days of the bardo of becoming?
(a) His or her body
(b) Earth
(c) Life
(d) The Lord of Death

5. Name one of the teachers Sogyal looks at in appendix 1?
(a) Dingo Kayete Dilshan
(b) Lordrtz Joipier
(c) Dudjom Rinpoche
(d) Jimyong Kyamy

6. Who did one monk do as the Chinese led him to his death?
(a) Laugh
(b) Sing
(c) Chant
(d) Experience near death

7. Name one thing a person can transform pain into?
(a) Positive energy
(b) Karma
(c) A sense of purpose
(d) Emotional richness

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

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

10. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?
(a) Phowa
(b) Charity
(c) Light Control
(d) Meditation

11. Name one type of death Sogyal mentions?
(a) Murder
(b) A positive death
(c) Premature death
(d) Suicide

12. What is every person's right to die with?
(a) Spiritual assistance
(b) Loved ones
(c) Enlightenment
(d) Lucidity of thought

13. What is the first phase of the bardo of dharmata?
(a) The Portrait of Light
(b) The Landscape of Light
(c) Rigpa
(d) The Union of Deities

14. Name one thing that a person who has experienced death has felt?
(a) A weightlessness
(b) Seizures
(c) Continuous laughter
(d) A lack of pain

15. What does those who died in suffering relive on the seventh day?
(a) Their birth
(b) Their suffering
(c) Their best moment
(d) Their worst moment

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else does Sogyal say one must assist during this process?

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

3. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?

4. What is appendix 2 called?

5. What can compassion lead the dying to?

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