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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Message of the Mystics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah want to know if the narrator can see?
(a) the pull of the plants on insects
(b) the rows of extra large cabbages
(c) the difference between different plant species
(d) the energy between plants and some students

2. What does Wilson James say he wants to find?
(a) a safe way out of Lima
(b) the Ninth Insight
(c) the person who stole the Manuscript
(d) the site where the Manuscript was found

3. What does the Manuscript say will be the first indication of change?
(a) an eclipse of the sun
(b) a massive earthquake
(c) worldwide political upheaval
(d) a great restlessness

4. What coincidence happens when the narrator gets up to go to the restroom?
(a) He hears a man mention the Manuscript to a stewardess.
(b) He hears someone talking about a disappeared priest.
(c) He finds a copy of the First Insight in the magazine rack.
(d) He meets and old friend from his university.

5. What does Sarah give to the narrator?
(a) directions to the place where the Manuscript was found
(b) an invitation to a panel discussion
(c) a raincoat for pretection in the forest
(d) a copy of the Third Insight to read for himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What suddenly happens as the narrator walks toward Marjorie?

2. What are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?

3. While waiting in the car at Cula, who does the narrator spot?

4. Back down the mountain, what brings the narrator out of his euphoria?

5. With all the information the narrator got from Charlene, why does he go out into the garden?

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