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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. What is de lok?
(a) Those who never love
(b) Those who experience near death
(c) The door to the after life
(d) The door of perception

2. What must one experience every seven days during this bardo?
(a) Marriage
(b) Their life highlights
(c) Birth
(d) Death

3. What bardo does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?
(a) The bardo of seeing
(b) The bardo of becoming
(c) The bardo of being
(d) The bardo of fun

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

5. Who are the people who experience near death accompanied by?
(a) A deity
(b) A winged lion
(c) A guardian angel
(d) The Lord of Death

Short Answer Questions

1. What does those who died in suffering relive on the seventh day?

2. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?

3. What is the name of the second phase of the bardo of dharmata?

4. What does Rick take responsibility for?

5. What is Bodhicitta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have those people who have experienced death or near death reported about it?

2. How can a person help someone who is dying?

3. What is tantric buddhism?

4. What is included in appendix one.

5. What happens during the first few weeks of someone's death?

6. Describe the four levels of consciousness during inner dissolution?

7. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

8. How can a person improve the karma of someone already dead?

9. What is the sleeping lion position?

10. What does Sogyal hope his book will achieve?

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