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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do they borrow a truck?
(a) To go into Kaunakakai to shop.
(b) To go to a large waterfall.
(c) Because Mama Chia is tired.
(d) To go to the mainland.

2. How is she determined to live?
(a) Under a doctor's care.
(b) She is determined to heal herself.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Fully until she dies.

3. What do four Hawaiian punks do?
(a) Give Dan drugs.
(b) Bother Sachi.
(c) Beat up Dan.
(d) Are disrespectful to Mama Chia.

4. What does Mama Chia declare about her, Dan and Socrates?
(a) They are not from this planet.
(b) They are soul mates.
(c) They have the combined wisdom of an avatar.
(d) They are to teach the world.

5. What childhood horror does Dan relive?
(a) Of his father accidentally being killed in front of him.
(b) Of his dog dying slowly.
(c) Of being lost at a store and not being able to find his mama.
(d) Of being locked in a storage trunk by bullies.

6. What does Dan realize about the lower floors?
(a) He must accept what is rather than cling to illusions.
(b) He must live on the lower floors though he visits the higher ones.
(c) He must organize the clutter.
(d) He must accept his higher self.

7. Why should Dan meditate by the waterfall?
(a) If he needs to prove something to himself.
(b) No particular reason.
(c) So the sound blocks out his thoughts.
(d) To really hear the waterfall.

8. What must one do every day?
(a) Go through a re-birth.
(b) Die to live.
(c) Choose to master the energy of life or squander it.
(d) Live to die.

9. Where is Dan assigned to work?
(a) Bathing patients.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) At the clinic.
(d) Clearing the garden.

10. Why is Dan afraid?
(a) He has no gun.
(b) That Beer Belly may return.
(c) He has lost his good physical conditioning.
(d) Because of the leprosy.

11. What does Dan's disembodied self do?
(a) Stands and looks at his body.
(b) Flies into the heavens.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Levitates onto the shroud-like sheet.

12. When Dan awakes on the other side, what happens?
(a) He is weak and needs help arising.
(b) He is stronger.
(c) He has a broken leg.
(d) His injuries disappear.

13. What are an Indian leper, a French drunk, a suburban teen sniffing drugs, and a dying African baby?
(a) Mama Chia's images of Dan.
(b) Four people who confront Dan about his life.
(c) Dan's four alter egos.
(d) Four scenes through which Dan moves in the white tower.

14. What does the tiger do?
(a) Mauls Dan's face.
(b) Pulls Dan out of the grave.
(c) Licks Dan's face.
(d) Lies down beside Dan .

15. Of what does the storekeeper warn Dan?
(a) That Dan should leave the island.
(b) That they live near there.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That he has made some powerful enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama Chia do to her pet bird?

2. What is Fuji's best move for a fight?

3. Who is Dan's guardian angel?

4. What does Mama Chia tell Tia?

5. What does Mama Chia say one reason is for her relationship with Dan?

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