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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: "The Innermost Essence".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Buddha say that humankind repeats?
(a) The cycle of sem
(b) The cycle of life
(c) The cycle of verdu
(d) The cycle of samsara

2. What ideas does the Dalai Lama discuss in this opening chapter?
(a) How a person should live their life.
(b) Views on life and death
(c) Views on marriage
(d) Views on the perfect relationship

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

4. How does the Dalai Lama claim a person can minimize the consequences of death?
(a) By looking for happiness
(b) By turning to God
(c) By confronting it
(d) By becoming a Buddhist

5. What did Dudjom tell the young woman from New York to relax her
(a) Accept death
(b) Be true to yourself
(c) Move to Tibet
(d) Accept life

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the frog die?

2. What is good in the middle?

3. What does a person have to stabilize in the View?

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

5. What is the name of Master Khyentse's attendant?

(see the answer key)

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