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

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

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

4. What is de lok?
(a) The door of perception
(b) Those who experience near death
(c) Those who never love
(d) The door to the after life

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outer dissolution?

2. What does Rick take responsibility for?

3. What must one experience every seven days during this bardo?

4. What does a master pray for when someone dies?

5. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can one transform their pain when watching a loved one dying?

3. What is tantric buddhism?

4. What does Sogyal hope his book will achieve?

5. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

6. How can a person help someone who is dying?

7. How can one expand their lifespan?

8. Describe the first story Sogyal tells in this chapter.

9. How does Sogyal define compassion?

10. What does Sogyal say in the second appendix?

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