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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the inner dissolution?
(a) The process of dissolving negative thoughts
(b) Calmness during meditation
(c) Where thought and emotion decease.
(d) Karma

2. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?
(a) The death of animals
(b) The importance of the book
(c) Near death experience
(d) The Chinese invasion of Tibet

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

4. What does one enter if they fail to recognize the Ground Luminosity?
(a) The bardo of dharmata
(b) The Union of Deities
(c) Negative karma
(d) Rigpa

5. What is appendix 2 called?
(a) Heavenly Murder
(b) Marriage for Happiness
(c) Answers Are For Those Who Die
(d) Questions about Death

6. What is absolute nature known as?
(a) Sambhogkaya
(b) Dharmakaya
(c) Sohoyul
(d) Nirmanakaya

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

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

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

10. What does Sogyal wish that no humans would fear?
(a) Religion
(b) Life and death
(c) Buddhism
(d) Happiness

11. What is one convinced of during the first few weeks of this bardo?
(a) He or she has been buried alive
(b) He or she is still alive
(c) He or she has been promoted to heaven
(d) He or she is bored

12. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?
(a) Dedicate it to the benefit of others in pain
(b) Breathe it out
(c) Take it over with positive thoughts
(d) Spread it evenly though the body

13. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?
(a) Buddhism
(b) Christianity
(c) Islam
(d) Hinduism

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

15. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?
(a) Compassion
(b) Meditation
(c) Eating
(d) Forgiveness

Short Answer Questions

1. What have some people dismissed near death experiences as?

2. What does Phowa allow one to do?

3. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?

4. What does Sogyal recommend reading to the dead?

5. What does the deceased remain linked to during the first 21 days of the bardo of becoming?

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