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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 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 is bored
(d) He or she has been buried alive

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

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

4. What does the deceased remain linked to during the first 21 days of the bardo of becoming?
(a) Life
(b) His or her body
(c) Earth
(d) The Lord of Death

5. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?
(a) Grade school
(b) The teenage years
(c) Kindergarten
(d) University age

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one do during the Landscape of Light?

2. What does Rick take responsibility for?

3. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?

4. What was the name of the AIDS victim?

5. What does Sogyal say can avert death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Landscape of Light?

2. What is included in appendix one.

3. Describe the story about the monk who was lead to his death by the Chinese

4. How does Sogyal define compassion?

5. Describe David Bohn's theory?

6. Why is the bardo of dharmata rarely discussed in Tibeten Buddhism?

7. Describe the four levels of consciousness during inner dissolution?

8. How does Sogyal state we assist the dying?

9. What is the sleeping lion position?

10. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

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