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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Negative people
(b) Acquaintances
(c) Doctors
(d) Grieving loved ones

2. What is the first phase of the bardo of dharmata?
(a) The Union of Deities
(b) Rigpa
(c) The Portrait of Light
(d) The Landscape of Light

3. What is the mantra of compassion?
(a) Siddhi hum
(b) Vaira Guru Padma
(c) Om ah hum
(d) Om Mani Padme hum

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

5. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?
(a) To visit Buddha's grave
(b) China had invaded Tibet
(c) To buy a new monastry
(d) Khysentse had fallen ill

6. What does Dorothy suffer from in the first story?
(a) Cancer
(b) The flu
(c) Unrequited love
(d) Aids

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

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

9. What have some people dismissed near death experiences as?
(a) Hallucinations
(b) Dreams
(c) Lies
(d) Chemical reactions

10. What is the first appendix called?
(a) My Life
(b) My Second Life
(c) Alive
(d) My Teachers

11. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?
(a) The Chinese invasion of Tibet
(b) Near death experience
(c) The importance of the book
(d) The death of animals

12. What does Sogyal say can avert death?
(a) Deep breathing
(b) A master's love
(c) A lifetime of good karma
(d) A lifetime of prayer

13. What must one experience every seven days during this bardo?
(a) Birth
(b) Marriage
(c) Death
(d) Their life highlights

14. What does a master pray for when someone dies?
(a) karma
(b) Bardos
(c) Rebirth
(d) Heaven

15. Which bardo does Sogyal explain in this chapter?
(a) The bardo of dying
(b) The bardo of living
(c) The bardo of loving
(d) The bardo of thinking

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second phase of the bardo of dharmata?

2. What is appendix 2 called?

3. What does Phowa allow one to do?

4. What is Tonglen?

5. Who passes judgment after the battle for salvation?

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