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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 are the people in the novel either searching for or trying to suppress?
(a) an archeologist who found the Manuscript
(b) a document they call the Manuscript
(c) tablets of stone older than the Ten Commandments
(d) an ancient Incan stela with magic powers

2. What has Wayne Dobson found when he went to see a priest that never showed up?
(a) copies of the First and Second Insights
(b) a decree from the Cardinal to destroy the Manuscript
(c) a map to the location of the Manuscript
(d) a suicide note written by the priest

3. What does the narrator observe in the garden?
(a) energy fields around the plants
(b) many different kinds of birds
(c) a priest meditating
(d) a small cemetery

4. What happens to Marjorie while she waits beside the road?
(a) She is arrested.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is hit by a truck.
(d) She faints.

5. What will the restlessness cause people to do?
(a) take unnecessary risks
(b) commit serious crimes
(c) demand too much from each other
(d) retreat into their shells

Short Answer Questions

1. When they meet a German scientist, what does he do?

2. What has always fascinated the narrator?

3. What is easier at sunrise or sunset?

4. What information does Reneau share with the narrator?

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

(see the answer key)

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