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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16: "The Ground".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other character is also dying in this opening chapter?
(a) Kandro Tsering
(b) Lama Tseten
(c) Sogyal
(d) Khyentse

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

3. What does Sogyal say can lighten an atmosphere when a person is dying?
(a) Humor
(b) Reading
(c) Meditation
(d) Quiet

4. Why do humans repeat the cycle of samsara?
(a) Because we are ignorant of the true nature of mind
(b) Because we are afraid of death
(c) Because we are afraid of living
(d) Because our live are monotonous

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sogyal think people should stop focusing on?

2. How does the Dalai Lama claim a person can minimize the consequences of death?

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

4. What did Buddha say that humankind repeats?

5. What can the gods never find?

(see the answer key)

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