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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 a person need to know to avoid suffering?
(a) Compassion
(b) Who his loved one's are.
(c) The process of dying
(d) Unconditional love

2. What does a master pray for when someone dies?
(a) karma
(b) Bardos
(c) Rebirth
(d) Heaven

3. What must one experience every seven days during this bardo?
(a) Their life highlights
(b) Marriage
(c) Death
(d) Birth

4. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?
(a) Meditation
(b) Charity
(c) Phowa
(d) Light Control

5. What do people say the blinding light is filled with?
(a) Love
(b) Dead people
(c) Goblins
(d) White noise

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?

2. Why don't the Tibetans move a dead body for three days?

3. What does Sogyal begin this chapter by discussing?

4. What is the inner dissolution?

5. What does the opening of one's heart allow for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ground Luminosity?

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

3. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

4. Describe David Bohn's theory?

5. What are the de lok?

6. What does Sogyal hope his book will achieve?

7. Summarize The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

8. Describe Sogyal's master's death.

9. Who does Sogyal dedicate his book to?

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

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