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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 is the purpose of life?
(a) To find happiness
(b) To live a good life
(c) To marry and have children
(d) To find enlightenment

2. Name one of the attributes a master should have?
(a) Kindness
(b) Anger
(c) Passion
(d) Humor

3. What other character is also dying in this opening chapter?
(a) Kandro Tsering
(b) Sogyal
(c) Lama Tseten
(d) Khyentse

4. Who is Khandro?
(a) Buddha's wife
(b) A demi god
(c) A great female master
(d) An evil spirit

5. What can the gods never find?
(a) True happiness
(b) True life
(c) True nature
(d) True understanding

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Soyal not say comes from the fear of death?

2. Why do humans repeat the cycle of samsara?

3. Name one of the five ways to attain enlightenment?

4. What is Dzogchen Tantras a guide to?

5. What was the name of Rinpoche's master?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sogyal's first experience with death.

2. Decribe Sogyal's childhood.

3. What is the Dalai Lama's views on death?

4. What is the View?

5. What is Dzogchen?

6. How can one find their own spiritual path?

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

8. How will people with pure vision see the world?

9. What proof does Sogyal offer that there is reincarnation?

10. What does the Dalai Lama introduce in his foreward?

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