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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix 1: "My Teachers" and Appendix 2: "Questions about Death".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Sogyal say died in 1991?
(a) Ghandi
(b) Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
(c) Yoganda Dilpak
(d) His father

3. What does Soyal see Tsetsen as?
(a) A grandfather figure
(b) A father figure
(c) A best friend
(d) A brother

4. What did Rinpoche do at he age of six months?
(a) Entered the monastry
(b) Walked
(c) Made a cake
(d) Said Buddha

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samten often let Sogyal borrow?

2. What is it customary not to do a dead body in Tibet for three days?

3. What is Tonglen?

4. What does Rinpoche believe his master was the embodiment of?

5. What is the crystallization into form known as?

(see the answer key)

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