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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama Chia see as hidden gifts?
(a) Painful physical challenges she suffers as a child.
(b) The way human beings do not believe in their deaths.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) Death and rebirth.

2. What is it that Ruth suggest Dan needs in this situation?
(a) A sense of direction.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Trust and faith.
(d) Resolve.

3. What happened that made Dan go out so foolishly unprepared?
(a) He lost the second page of Ruth's note.
(b) He thought Ruth would think him strong if he took nothing on the journey.
(c) He thought he was tougher than he is.
(d) He was suicidal.

4. What does Mama Chia do after Dan has slept for 36 hours?
(a) Sends him back to the mainland.
(b) Sends him back to Oahu on the surfboard.
(c) Rouses him.
(d) Sends him on a mystical journey.

5. What happens as Dan contemplates the sky from the surfboard?
(a) He falls off.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He wonders about his daughter.
(d) He realizes he has been duped.

6. Where does Millman decide to go?
(a) New York.
(b) India.
(c) South America.
(d) Alaska.

7. What does Sachi ask her baby brother?
(a) To go with her to a new island.
(b) To help her convince her parents to let her travel alone.
(c) To tell her what God feels like.
(d) To help her learn about nature.

8. Who does Mama Chia meet when she is 7?
(a) Papa Kahili.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Papa Kahuna.

9. What is one thing Ruth and Dan have in common?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Oberlin.

10. At what time of the year does Millman arrive in Delhi?
(a) The monsoon season.
(b) The holy season.
(c) Early summer.
(d) The hot, dry season.

11. Why does Dan enjoy spending time with Sachi?
(a) She is so funny.
(b) He misses his daughter.
(c) She doesn't have any expectations of him.
(d) She is wise beyond her years.

12. With what has Mama Chia put Dan in touch?
(a) His inner records.
(b) Dan's daughter.
(c) God.
(d) Another man on a similar journey.

13. What does she do after drawing the figure?
(a) Dances.
(b) Goes into a trance.
(c) Sings.
(d) Prays.

14. What fades in the author's memories as he leads a "normal" life?
(a) His father's death.
(b) His past life as a Tibetan monk.
(c) His memories of fighting in Viet Nam.
(d) His encounter with Socrates.

15. Who is Ruth Johnson?
(a) The young bank teller with whom Millman has dinner.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) An older woman in a muumuu.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the law of faith?

2. What American statesman does Mama Chia quote in chapter 5?

3. What is the main thing that keeps Dan looking after feeling quite discouraged?

4. Why does Dan have to rest?

5. Who is having a baby in chapter 5?

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