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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 Dudjom's wife praise?
(a) The cemetaries
(b) The meadows
(c) The snow
(d) The churches

2. What period does the natural bardo span between?
(a) Childhood and teenage years
(b) Birth and death
(c) Morning and night
(d) Childhood and adulthood

3. What does Dudjum say a civilized country builds for their living corpses?
(a) Beautiful clothes
(b) Beautiful sky scrapers
(c) Beautiful houses
(d) Beautiful gardens

4. Which of the following does Soyal not say comes from the fear of death?
(a) The unknown
(b) Knowledge of one's self
(c) A passion for life
(d) Over eating

5. What does the Dalai Lama see death as?
(a) Contentment
(b) A natural, acceptable process
(c) Unnecessary
(d) The beginning of a person's life

Short Answer Questions

1. What king of reptile does Sogyal tell a story about?

2. What does Freda Taylor suffer from?

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

4. Who does the Dalai Lama praise as a master of the Tibetan tradition?

5. What does Sogyal state there is no need to die in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a person need at the point of death?

2. What is the fundamental state of mind?

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

4. How did Sogyal find the present moment?

5. Decribe Sogyal's childhood.

6. What does the name Rinpoche mean?

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

8. What is Dzogchen?

9. Describe the story Sogyal tells about Krisha Gotami.

10. Describe the story of the frog in the well.

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