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

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

3. What does Phowa allow one to do?
(a) Attain enlightenment
(b) Relax
(c) Move into an afterlife
(d) Die serenely

4. What does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?
(a) Dying alone
(b) Ground Luminosity
(c) The importance of family
(d) Clear Light

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something someone should really let go of before they die?

2. What is the mind no longer limited by in the bardo of becoming?

3. What does a master pray for when someone dies?

4. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?

5. Who are the people who experience near death accompanied by?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sogyal say in the second appendix?

2. Why is the bardo of dharmata rarely discussed in Tibeten Buddhism?

3. How can one transform their pain when watching a loved one dying?

4. Summarize The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

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

6. What are the de lok?

7. Describe the first story Sogyal tells in this chapter.

8. What is the Landscape of Light?

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

10. What happens to the dead when the elements return?

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