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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whose death does Sogyal describe in this chapter?
(a) Khysentse
(b) Gandhi
(c) His own
(d) Sikkim
2. What is every person's right to die with?
(a) Loved ones
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Lucidity of thought
(d) Spiritual assistance
3. What can compassion lead the dying to?
(a) A spiritual path
(b) Recovery
(c) An good afterlife
(d) Lucidity of thought
4. How does Sogyal improve their next life?
(a) Dying in a positive state of mind
(b) Praying
(c) Meditating
(d) Dying surrounded by loved ones
5. What is one convinced of during the first few weeks of this bardo?
(a) He or she is bored
(b) He or she has been promoted to heaven
(c) He or she is still alive
(d) He or she has been buried alive
6. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?
(a) China had invaded Tibet
(b) Khysentse had fallen ill
(c) To buy a new monastry
(d) To visit Buddha's grave
7. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?
(a) Christianity
(b) Islam
(c) Buddhism
(d) Hinduism
8. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Grieving loved ones
(b) Negative people
(c) Acquaintances
(d) Doctors
9. What is the mind no longer limited by in the bardo of becoming?
(a) Conditioning
(b) The outside world
(c) The physical body
(d) Technology
10. Who asks Sogyal questions in appendix 2?
(a) Children
(b) Students
(c) Kindergarten teachers
(d) Parents
11. What kind of euthanasia does Sogyal think is acceptable?
(a) Positive
(b) Quick
(c) Passive
(d) Active
12. What is the outer dissolution?
(a) When the earth dissolves
(b) Negative thoughts during mediation
(c) Where the senses and elements dissolve.
(d) What is happening in the next world
13. What does Phowa allow one to do?
(a) Die serenely
(b) Attain enlightenment
(c) Move into an afterlife
(d) Relax
14. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?
(a) The Chinese invasion of Tibet
(b) The death of animals
(c) Near death experience
(d) The importance of the book
15. 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
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Sogyal want everyone to die?
2. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?
3. What does Dorothy suffer from in the first story?
4. What is it customary not to do a dead body in Tibet for three days?
5. Who does Sogyal say he admires?
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