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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 period does the natural bardo span between?
(a) Childhood and adulthood
(b) Childhood and teenage years
(c) Birth and death
(d) Morning and night

2. What does Samten often let Sogyal borrow?
(a) Socks
(b) Perfume
(c) Books
(d) Costumes

3. What does a student have to achieved to move on to the View?
(a) Spatial awareness
(b) Karmic purification
(c) True acknowledgement of death
(d) Self realization

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

5. How does the west traditionally cope with death?
(a) They deny it
(b) They rush to get there
(c) They embrace it
(d) They forget it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?

2. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?

3. Name one of the five ways to attain enlightenment?

4. What does Sogyal say that in Buddhist faith is in the mind only?

5. What does Khysentse lead Samten through?

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