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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sogyal define at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Samsara
(b) Compassion
(c) Unconditional love
(d) Sympathy

3. Name one of the teachers Sogyal looks at in appendix 1?
(a) Lordrtz Joipier
(b) Dudjom Rinpoche
(c) Jimyong Kyamy
(d) Dingo Kayete Dilshan

4. What should one direct toward the deceased to help him or her?
(a) Negative thoughts
(b) A statue of Buddha
(c) Positive thoughts
(d) Sunlight

5. Who does Sogyal dedicate the book to?
(a) People looking for better lives
(b) Those who perished in Tibet
(c) Buddha
(d) Israel

6. What was the name of the AIDS victim?
(a) Jill
(b) Arnie
(c) Rick
(d) Davis

7. Name a practice that can lead to enlightenment in this bardo?
(a) Togal
(b) Tanec
(c) Johulo
(d) Tikli

8. Which religion has a threefold vision of God?
(a) Buddhism
(b) Christianity
(c) Islam
(d) Hinduism

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

10. What is the crystallization into form known as?
(a) Tybolakaya
(b) Dharmakaya
(c) Nirmanakaya
(d) Sambhogakaya

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?

2. What does Rick take responsibility for?

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

4. What bardo does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?

5. Who passes judgment after the battle for salvation?

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