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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: "Helping After Death".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can compassion lead the dying to?
(a) A spiritual path
(b) Lucidity of thought
(c) Recovery
(d) An good afterlife

2. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?
(a) Meditation
(b) Eating
(c) Compassion
(d) Forgiveness

3. Name one type of death Sogyal mentions?
(a) Premature death
(b) Murder
(c) A positive death
(d) Suicide

4. How does the frog die?
(a) He dies of old age
(b) He is shot
(c) He overdoses
(d) His head explodes

5. Name one of Buddha's six realms of existence?
(a) Hungry dogs
(b) Happiness
(c) Anger
(d) Hungry ghosts

Short Answer Questions

1. How can one overcome negative feelings when watching someone dying?

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

3. What are individuals with a similar vision of the world said to share?

4. Name one thing the gods do in the god realm?

5. Name Dzogchen's two fundamental processes?

(see the answer key)

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