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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 "Impermanence".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Dalai Lama see death as?
(a) Contentment
(b) Unnecessary
(c) The beginning of a person's life
(d) A natural, acceptable process

2. What does the Dalai Lama hope Sogyal can offer?
(a) A love of living
(b) A practical reference guide
(c) A karmic state
(d) A spiritual peace for westerners

3. What does Sogyal think individuals should prepare for?
(a) Work
(b) Holidays
(c) The after life
(d) Family

4. What is the basic plot of the book?
(a) Tibetan politics
(b) Tibetan beliefs on death and dying
(c) War
(d) The themes of Karma

5. What does Sogyal say humans depend on?
(a) Food
(b) Material possessions
(c) The after life
(d) Education

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rinpoche state his master treated him like?

2. What ideas does the Dalai Lama discuss in this opening chapter?

3. Where is Sogyal traveling to?

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

5. What part of Tibet is Sogyal traveling through at the beginning of this chapter?

(see the answer key)

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