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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?
(a) Meditation
(b) Light Control
(c) Charity
(d) Phowa
2. Which of the following is a source of extremely high negative karma?
(a) Suicide
(b) Marriage for money
(c) Euthanasia
(d) Drugs
3. What does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?
(a) Clear Light
(b) The importance of family
(c) Dying alone
(d) Ground Luminosity
4. What do relatives need to remain if they want to stay at the bedside of a dying loved one?
(a) Humorous
(b) Quiet
(c) Happy and smiling
(d) Unattached
5. What happens once inner and outer dissolution occur?
(a) Reincarnation
(b) Complete karma
(c) Ground Luminosity of the Clear Light
(d) Death
6. What is appendix 2 called?
(a) Answers Are For Those Who Die
(b) Marriage for Happiness
(c) Questions about Death
(d) Heavenly Murder
7. Who passes judgment after the battle for salvation?
(a) The Lord of the After Life
(b) The Lord of Death
(c) Buddha
(d) The red devil
8. What is Bodhicitta?
(a) The opening of one's heart
(b) A tantra
(c) An instrument of compassion
(d) The wish of the enlightened mind.
9. What are the balls of light known as?
(a) Fire balls
(b) Deities
(c) Tikli
(d) Kiplo
10. How does Sogyal improve their next life?
(a) Dying in a positive state of mind
(b) Dying surrounded by loved ones
(c) Meditating
(d) Praying
11. How does Sogyal want everyone to die?
(a) As individuals
(b) As buddhists
(c) As they want to die
(d) In peace
12. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Grieving loved ones
(b) Negative people
(c) Doctors
(d) Acquaintances
13. What two creatures battle a case for salvation?
(a) A winged tiger and a winged unicorn
(b) A black lion and a white lion
(c) The angel of death and a white devil
(d) A guardian angel and a black devil
14. What does Phowa allow one to do?
(a) Move into an afterlife
(b) Attain enlightenment
(c) Die serenely
(d) Relax
15. What is the outer dissolution?
(a) When the earth dissolves
(b) Where the senses and elements dissolve.
(c) What is happening in the next world
(d) Negative thoughts during mediation
Short Answer Questions
1. Name one of the teachers Sogyal looks at in appendix 1?
2. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?
3. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?
4. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?
5. Why don't the Tibetans move a dead body for three days?
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