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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18: "The Bardo of Becoming".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is good in the middle?
(a) The state of mind during meditation
(b) Finding Buddhism in middle age.
(c) A good marraige
(d) The period before a person becomes a slave to materialism

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

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

4. What state is the entire world in when Buddha wakes up from his meditation?
(a) Harmony
(b) Warfare
(c) Destruction
(d) True perfection

5. What does Sogyal state there is no need to die in?
(a) Unhappiness
(b) Negativity
(c) Pain
(d) Hospital

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sogyal state the dying are being challenged?

2. What does Sogyal state can help remove pain?

3. Why do humans repeat the cycle of samsara?

4. What does mindfullness defuse?

5. What did Buddha say that humankind repeats?

(see the answer key)

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