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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?
(a) Breathe it out
(b) Dedicate it to the benefit of others in pain
(c) Take it over with positive thoughts
(d) Spread it evenly though the body

3. What are the balls of light known as?
(a) Deities
(b) Fire balls
(c) Tikli
(d) Kiplo

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

5. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?
(a) Eating
(b) Compassion
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Meditation

6. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?
(a) Kindergarten
(b) The teenage years
(c) Grade school
(d) University age

7. What does Rick take responsibility for?
(a) His negative life
(b) Ten murders
(c) His children
(d) His illness

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

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

10. What is one convinced of during the first few weeks of this bardo?
(a) He or she has been buried alive
(b) He or she has been promoted to heaven
(c) He or she is still alive
(d) He or she is bored

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

12. Which of the following is a source of extremely high negative karma?
(a) Drugs
(b) Suicide
(c) Euthanasia
(d) Marriage for money

13. Who are the people who experience near death accompanied by?
(a) A guardian angel
(b) A deity
(c) A winged lion
(d) The Lord of Death

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is absolute nature known as?

2. Name one thing a person can transform pain into?

3. What is the mantra of compassion?

4. What does one do during the Landscape of Light?

5. What is every person's right to die with?

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