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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sogyal think people should stop focusing on?
(a) The past
(b) The future
(c) Material possessions
(d) The now

3. How can one overcome negative feelings when watching someone dying?
(a) By placing one's self into their shoes
(b) By thinking about reincarnation
(c) By praying
(d) By meditating

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

5. What does a student have to achieved to move on to the View?
(a) True acknowledgement of death
(b) Self realization
(c) Spatial awareness
(d) Karmic purification

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What memory does Sogyal recount about his master?

3. What does Rinpoche state his master treated him like?

4. What ideas does the Dalai Lama discuss in this opening chapter?

5. Name one of Buddha's six realms of existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a person need at the point of death?

2. How is reincarnation related to the continuity of the mind?

3. What does the Dalai Lama introduce in his foreward?

4. Why does Sogyal dedicate his book to his master?

5. What attributes should a master have?

6. Decribe Sogyal's childhood.

7. Describe the story of the frog in the well.

8. How does Sogyal suggest we can overcome negative feelings about someone when we see them dying?

9. What is the fundamental state of mind?

10. What did Buddha learn about meditation?

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