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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a person able to do if he accepts death?
(a) Fall in love
(b) Communicate better
(c) Heal himself
(d) Be at peace with himself

2. What does Rinpoche discuss in this chapter?
(a) His childhood
(b) His friends
(c) His faith
(d) His previous life

3. What should a person have at the point of death?
(a) Their family
(b) Open eyes
(c) A karmic state of mind
(d) Contentment

4. What is Dzogchen Tantras a guide to?
(a) A good life
(b) Reincarnation
(c) The afterlife
(d) Healthy food

5. What should one see their master as in order to receive full benefits of his teachings?
(a) A messenger
(b) A human
(c) A father
(d) A Buddha

6. Name one of the five ways to attain enlightenment?
(a) Mindfullness
(b) Self awareness
(c) Falling in love
(d) Tasting sacred nectars

7. What can the gods never find?
(a) True nature
(b) True understanding
(c) True happiness
(d) True life

8. What does Sogyal say that in Buddhist faith is in the mind only?
(a) Anger
(b) Material needs
(c) Life and death
(d) Sexual activity

9. What period does the natural bardo span between?
(a) Childhood and teenage years
(b) Morning and night
(c) Birth and death
(d) Childhood and adulthood

10. How does the west traditionally cope with death?
(a) They deny it
(b) They rush to get there
(c) They forget it
(d) They embrace it

11. What had Krish Gotami lost in Sogyal's story?
(a) Her dog
(b) Her rabbit
(c) Her child
(d) Her car

12. What is the second authenticity?
(a) The devotion of a student
(b) The presence of enlightenment
(c) The blessing of an authentic master
(d) A love of life

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

14. Which of the following is a certainty about death?
(a) One will go to heaven
(b) One will die
(c) One will be reincarnated
(d) One will think no longer

15. What is the capital of Tibet?
(a) Oomar
(b) Peking
(c) Lhasa
(d) Lupei

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way to find enlightenment?

2. What does a student have to achieved to move on to the View?

3. What do people think Master Kyentse was responsible for in a previous life?

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

5. What does Sogyal express the importance of in this chapter?

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