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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 "Spiritual Help for the Dying".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a person have to stabilize in the View?
(a) Goobu
(b) Yippi
(c) Rigba
(d) Solvent

2. What memory does Sogyal recount about his master?
(a) The time he suddenly kissed and hugged him
(b) The time he told Sogyal about his impending death
(c) A holiday in Paris
(d) The time he whipped him

3. What is the capital of Tibet?
(a) Oomar
(b) Peking
(c) Lhasa
(d) Lupei

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

5. Which of the following is not one of the four Bardos?
(a) The mechanical Bardo of materialism
(b) The luminous bardo of dharmata
(c) The natural bardo of life
(d) The painful bardo of dying

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tseten not want to go to a nearby monetary?

2. What does sem mean in English?

3. What does a student have to achieved to move on to the View?

4. What does Sogyal view the western ideas towards death as?

5. What is each step in life known as?

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