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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who passes judgment after the battle for salvation?
(a) The Lord of the After Life
(b) The red devil
(c) The Lord of Death
(d) Buddha

3. Who did one monk do as the Chinese led him to his death?
(a) Laugh
(b) Sing
(c) Chant
(d) Experience near death

4. Who did Dorothy rely on while in hospital?
(a) Her father
(b) Her best friend
(c) Her brother
(d) Her master

5. What is it customary not to do a dead body in Tibet for three days?
(a) Move it
(b) Touch it
(c) Look at it
(d) Bury it

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

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

8. What is the name of the second phase of the bardo of dharmata?
(a) The Union of Deities
(b) The Living Death
(c) The Light Source
(d) The Union of Mind

9. What does Sogyal recommend reading to the dead?
(a) The Book of Karma
(b) The Tibetan Book of Dying and Living
(c) The Tibetan Book of the Dead
(d) The Old Testament

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

11. What practice does Sogyal recommend?
(a) Radiancy
(b) Karma
(c) Jhomna
(d) Phowa

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

13. What bardo does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?
(a) The bardo of seeing
(b) The bardo of becoming
(c) The bardo of fun
(d) The bardo of being

14. Who does Sogyal say died in 1991?
(a) Ghandi
(b) His father
(c) Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
(d) Yoganda Dilpak

15. What does one do during the Landscape of Light?
(a) Falls unconscious
(b) Feel nothing, but positivity
(c) Laugh continously
(d) Takes on a body of pure light

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sogyal improve their next life?

2. What is the mind no longer limited by in the bardo of becoming?

3. What is de lok?

4. What does those who died in suffering relive on the seventh day?

5. Why don't the Tibetans move a dead body for three days?

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