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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sogyal say individuals should not plan for?
(a) Parties
(b) Tomorrow
(c) Death
(d) Next week

2. What had Krish Gotami lost in Sogyal's story?
(a) Her car
(b) Her rabbit
(c) Her child
(d) Her dog

3. What does Sogyal say is the purpose of life?
(a) To live a good life
(b) To find happiness
(c) To find enlightenment
(d) To marry and have children

4. Which of the following is not one of the four Bardos?
(a) The luminous bardo of dharmata
(b) The natural bardo of life
(c) The painful bardo of dying
(d) The mechanical Bardo of materialism

5. What is the name of Master Khyentse's attendant?
(a) Yogi
(b) Sogyal
(c) Samten
(d) Yapson

Short Answer Questions

1. What should one see their master as in order to receive full benefits of his teachings?

2. What must one do to find the true nature of mind?

3. What does a person have to stabilize in the View?

4. Why do humans repeat the cycle of samsara?

5. What is the only way to find enlightenment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fundamental state of mind?

2. What praise does the Dalai Lama give the author?

3. What are the two certainties of death?

4. How can one find their own spiritual path?

5. What does Sogyal state the dying are going through?

6. What does Sogyal claim fear of death comes from?

7. Why does Khyentse chuckle when Tseten passes away?

8. What is Dzogchen?

9. Describe the story Sogyal tells about the woman who visited Dudjom in New York.

10. How did Sogyal find the present moment?

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