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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name one thing that a person who has experienced death has felt?
(a) Continuous laughter
(b) Seizures
(c) A weightlessness
(d) A lack of pain

2. What does one need to cleanse during Phowa?
(a) An angry spirit
(b) Desire
(c) Attitudes towards death
(d) Negative karma

3. What practice does Sogyal recommend?
(a) Phowa
(b) Jhomna
(c) Radiancy
(d) Karma

4. What mantra signifies the essence of the View, the Meditation and the Action
(a) Siddhi Hum
(b) Vaira Guru Padma
(c) Om Ah Hum
(d) Lum Jop Bop

5. Who asks Sogyal questions in appendix 2?
(a) Children
(b) Parents
(c) Kindergarten teachers
(d) Students

6. What does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?
(a) Ground Luminosity
(b) The importance of family
(c) Dying alone
(d) Clear Light

7. What do people say the blinding light is filled with?
(a) Dead people
(b) Goblins
(c) White noise
(d) Love

8. What do relatives need to remain if they want to stay at the bedside of a dying loved one?
(a) Quiet
(b) Humorous
(c) Happy and smiling
(d) Unattached

9. How does Sogyal improve their next life?
(a) Meditating
(b) Dying surrounded by loved ones
(c) Dying in a positive state of mind
(d) Praying

10. Who else does Sogyal say one must assist during this process?
(a) The guardian angel
(b) The bereaved
(c) The deceased's children
(d) Poor people

11. Name one of the teachers Sogyal looks at in appendix 1?
(a) Jimyong Kyamy
(b) Dingo Kayete Dilshan
(c) Lordrtz Joipier
(d) Dudjom Rinpoche

12. What is the inner dissolution?
(a) Karma
(b) Calmness during meditation
(c) The process of dissolving negative thoughts
(d) Where thought and emotion decease.

13. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?
(a) Phowa
(b) Light Control
(c) Meditation
(d) Charity

14. Name a practice that can lead to enlightenment in this bardo?
(a) Togal
(b) Johulo
(c) Tanec
(d) Tikli

15. What does the opening of one's heart allow for?
(a) Compassion
(b) Calmness
(c) Enlightenment
(d) Unconditional love

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Dorothy rely on while in hospital?

2. Which of the following is a primary aspect?

3. What should one direct toward the deceased to help him or her?

4. What does Sogyal wish that no humans would fear?

5. What does Sogyal recommend reading to the dead?

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