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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Khandro?
(a) A great female master
(b) A demi god
(c) Buddha's wife
(d) An evil spirit

2. What is the View used to see?
(a) A person's previous life
(b) The absolute state
(c) The afterlife
(d) Reality

3. What king of reptile does Sogyal tell a story about?
(a) Dinosaur
(b) Toad
(c) Lizard
(d) Frog

4. What does the Dalai Lama see death as?
(a) Unnecessary
(b) A natural, acceptable process
(c) Contentment
(d) The beginning of a person's life

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

6. What does Dudjom's wife praise?
(a) The churches
(b) The meadows
(c) The snow
(d) The cemetaries

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

8. What does Sogyal state is a similar process to sleeping?
(a) Watching television
(b) Writing
(c) Meditation
(d) Dying

9. What is each step in life known as?
(a) Garbo
(b) Jambo
(c) Bardo
(d) Loophole

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

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

12. Which of the following does Soyal not say comes from the fear of death?
(a) A passion for life
(b) Knowledge of one's self
(c) Over eating
(d) The unknown

13. What does Sogyal state the dying are being challenged?
(a) Their past lives
(b) Buddha
(c) Negativity
(d) Samsara

14. What did Sogyal experience at the age of seven?
(a) Hate
(b) War
(c) Death
(d) Love

15. What does Sogyal say is the purpose of life?
(a) To find happiness
(b) To find enlightenment
(c) To live a good life
(d) To marry and have children

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the west traditionally cope with death?

2. What does Rinpoche state his master treated him like?

3. What is the second certainly of death?

4. Who discusses his views in this opening chapter?

5. What does Khysentse lead Samten through?

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