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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Sogyal wish that no humans would fear?
(a) Religion
(b) Buddhism
(c) Life and death
(d) Happiness

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

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

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

7. What is Tonglen?
(a) The giving and receiving of suffering
(b) The act of giving unconditional love
(c) A tantra
(d) Self hatred

8. What does one enter if they fail to recognize the Ground Luminosity?
(a) Rigpa
(b) The bardo of dharmata
(c) Negative karma
(d) The Union of Deities

9. Which of the following is a primary aspect?
(a) Compassion
(b) Birth
(c) Actions done in life
(d) Positve thoughts

10. What does a person need to know to avoid suffering?
(a) The process of dying
(b) Who his loved one's are.
(c) Compassion
(d) Unconditional love

11. What does Phowa allow one to do?
(a) Move into an afterlife
(b) Attain enlightenment
(c) Relax
(d) Die serenely

12. What is the de lok witness?
(a) The judgement of the dead
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Pure love
(d) The transportation of souls

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

14. What kind of euthanasia does Sogyal think is acceptable?
(a) Quick
(b) Active
(c) Passive
(d) Positive

15. What is the outer dissolution?
(a) When the earth dissolves
(b) Where the senses and elements dissolve.
(c) Negative thoughts during mediation
(d) What is happening in the next world

Short Answer Questions

1. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?

2. Who did Dorothy rely on while in hospital?

3. What does Sogyal define at the beginning of this chapter?

4. What does Sogyal say can avert death?

5. Name one thing that a person who has experienced death has felt?

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