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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 are the balls of light known as?
(a) Deities
(b) Fire balls
(c) Tikli
(d) Kiplo

2. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Grieving loved ones
(b) Negative people
(c) Doctors
(d) Acquaintances

3. What is the crystallization into form known as?
(a) Dharmakaya
(b) Tybolakaya
(c) Nirmanakaya
(d) Sambhogakaya

4. Who else does Sogyal say one must assist during this process?
(a) Poor people
(b) The deceased's children
(c) The bereaved
(d) The guardian angel

5. What is the radiance of energy known as?
(a) Crystallization
(b) Sambhogakaya
(c) Nirmanakaya
(d) Dharmakaya

Short Answer Questions

1. What bardo does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?

2. What does those who died in suffering relive on the seventh day?

3. What age does Sogyal suggest that the lessons must be taught from?

4. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?

5. What does Sogyal wish that no humans would fear?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sogyal define compassion?

2. Describe David Bohn's theory?

3. How does Sogyal state we assist the dying?

4. What happens to the dead when the elements return?

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

6. What does Sogyal say in the second appendix?

7. What have those people who have experienced death or near death reported about it?

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

9. What is the sleeping lion position?

10. What is tantric buddhism?

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